Simon Willison’s Weblog

Anyone who recently downloaded GreaseMonkey scripts from userscripts.org should check their scripts. I haven’t confirmed this, but this Jyte claim suggests that userscripts.org was hacked and cookie stealing code inserted in to some of the scripts. UPDATE: Not hacked; just bad scripts submitted through the regular process.

# 7th July 2007, 10:43 pm / greasemonkey, jyte, security, userscripts

Announcing Jyte. “Jyte is a simple service that allows you to associate claims, credibility and contacts to build a reputation with your OpenID”. The OpenID landscape is wide open for innovation like this.

# 31st January 2007, 6:04 pm / openid, jyte, scott-kveton, janrain