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Good points. I was imagining a scenario in which users/other-app-providers would be able to define their own Javascript functions, Google Caja http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ style... in which case, the app should simply only need to whitelist adding trusted hosts/base urls to <script src="" />...

Also, see Drew's comment below where he was able to find an XSS exploit in FriendFeed due to them accepting '<' and '>' in the callback value... a reflection of how most security exploits come from combining different vulnerabilities.

Hope I make sense?



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