Saturday, February 16, 2008

Re: Yahoo Widgets

Yahoo! allows open development widgets, so it is possible that a =
malcontent could create a malicious widget for use as a backdoor. That =
said, we have several users who use the default widget package from =
Yahoo! and haven't experienced any problems.
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Dave Aykroid
Director of Information Technology
Lake Forest Academy
1500 W. Kennedy Rd.
Lake Forest IL 60045
Voice 847.615.3211
Fax 847.615.4861
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From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Manns, Brian
Sent: Mon 2/11/2008 9:49 AM
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Subject: Yahoo Widgets

Is anyone out there using widgets? If so is there any security issues or
bandwidth issues that may be associated with it. All help on this is
greatly appreciated.

Brian Manns

Culver Educational Foundation

574-842-8158


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