Bookmarklets HOWTO

Bookmarklets -- The Evil Lurking In Your Browser

Bookmarklets -- The Evil Lurking In Your Browser
Filed: Sun, Feb 11 2007 under Programming|| Tags: json javascript bookmarklets security

Bookmarklets are incredibly useful tools. They can put your favorite sites at your fingertips as easy as dragging the icon in the location bar to your bookmark bar -- you can also drag RSS feeds, and you can drag scripts. While mostly benign, often very useful, and definitely under-exploited, bookmarklets are one of the biggest security holes lurking in your browser in addition to being the biggest thing waiting to hit the web since Ajax.