Posted by richard on 11/16/07 04:19

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:49:29 -0600, Mark Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Too bad there wasn't anything such as Cascading style sheets in 1990, not to
> mention the general public didn't have much access to the internet at all
> and ther was no world wide web.
>
> Mark
>
> "Green Xenon [Radium]" <glucegen1@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:473cf9cb$0$8841$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Cascading Style Sheet [.css] is such a hazard to your privacy. It allows
>> others on the internet to see your monitor and files. It allows them to
>> copy images on your monitor to their computers. It also allows them to
>> copy files from your computer to their computers. It is dangerous. Avoid
>> at all costs.
>>
>> CSS isn't stored in the victim's computer. Instead it is stored in the
>> perpetrator's computer. What it does is it reads everything on the
>> victim's screen and checks on the victim's visited web pages and can even
>> read text from any text or word application being used by the victim. CSS
>> is not a security risk and does not trick the victim's computer into
>> sending info to the perpetrator. However, this is an extreme invasion of
>> the victim's privacy. The victim has no idea that he/she is being
>> violated. The assailant can read text and see any pictures that happen to
>> be on the victim's monitor without actually accessing the victim's
>> computer.
>>
>> Your computer may not be at all damaged or touched. However, your
>> confidential information can easily be read by the attacker and anyone the
>> attacker gives it to. You don't have to download anything, visit any
>> website, or even use a browser to be attacked. You just need to be
>> connected to the internet and the attacker can strike you.
>>
>> Once again, the victim's computer does not store any part of CSS. All info
>> and software is stored in the assailant's computer.
>>
>> Such an attack occurred in Switzerland on September 9th of 1990 causing a
>> massive amount of fear and psychological dissociation in victims. These
>> victims now suffer from PTSD as a result of the psychological trauma
>> caused by the invasion of their privacy. Such victims continuously have
>> nightmares and terrifying flashbacks of the case.
>>
>> It's a fact that CSS leads to dissociative fugue states. It's extremely
>> scary.
>>
>> So once again, avoid CSS at all costs.

Actually, the www existed as early as 1985 when the first official domain
name was registered.

I don't know when CSS was actually first used, but it is possible than it
it's early stages, it was scary to use. According to the wikipedia, css was
in use in the '70's.

Given the date of the incident, anything could have happened while someone
was online. After all, windows 1.0 was just beginning to live. So you had
what? DOS as your OS? Was it possible for someone to know your private
information without you knowing they had it? Who knows? But from CSS? Most
likely not. More than likely, such information may have been passed through
unreliable servers and even less reliable people who operated them.

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