TECHTALK Messages for 2000: Re: frame busting page

Re: frame busting page

From: Bruce Speyer

bruce.speyer@medispecialty.com

Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:19:49 -0500

>well you know you are over my head but I Do Believe you. What do we do now?
>If we don't use frames then they Leave the site?
>
>After looking at the gibberish on the email from the Netherlands I would say
>it's a "Dutch Treat"

My apology for the code mess. I was trying to email a HTML snippet as an example but the mailers of course want to process the HTML and not just display it. If anybody wants to see it better go to http://forums.obgyn.net/techtalk/TECHTALK.00/0036.html

The whole point of this message (which I should have said in the original message) is about intellectual property and how people are getting more and more serious about protecting it on the Internet. This is simply an example of a web site, and there are many, that have gone to the extent & extra bother to put javascript code into their pages to make it very difficult or impossible to display their page from the frame of somebody elses page.

Since this is the techtalk forum I like sending in examples of emerging technology trends including their impact on society and culture. For example, one of the indisputable "killer apps" that has emerged out of the Internet is Napster and now virtually the entire music industry is trying to shut it down. This is a bellwether for future Intellectual Property versus society issues that are emerging on the Internet. Another example here in the US are the Internet companies (etoys.com, toysrus.com, etc.) that are being sold or valued simply to buy their registered user data and now all the lawsuits that have emerged over that.

I'd love it if somebody else on the techtalk list jumped in.

Bruce

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: techtalk@obgyn.net [mailto:techtalk@obgyn.net]On Behalf Of Bruce
>Speyer
>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:30 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list TECHTALK
>Subject: frame busting page
>
>FYI,
>
>Just coincidence but we hit the topic of frame busting pages today in a
>meeting and sure enough I clicked on a link in the OTOHNS calendar tonight
>(which is a frame) and the page had the frame busting code in it. Leave it
>to the clever Dutch to do this! Worse, that code makes it virtually
>impossible to go back to the previous page with the frame. I tried the
>same OTOHNS calendar from outside of a frame and there is no problem
>clicking to this page or going back.
>
>Yet another good reason to avoid frames - this is getting pretty common.
>
>Bruce

-- Bruce Speyer, CTO Home of OBGYN.net MediSpecialty.com The Universe of Women's Health 512-835-1111 ext 227 A Physician Directed Network 512-835-6112 fax, 512-632-3455 mobile http://www.obgyn.net EMAIL: bruce.speyer@medispecialty.com

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