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		deciplex on Sept 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010) But that's already a big improvement, actually. With NoScript, if a site (not on the whitelist) has to run JS, the user will be consciously aware of it. Aside from the obvious benefits, NoScript, and other plugins like it, force the user to remember that the web is a potentially hostile place.

dllthomas on Sept 9, 2014 [–]

I'm sure it's an improvement; I'm not sure how big a one - that doubtless depends in part upon just what the NoScript user's habits look like.

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