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Crazyhorse, question by someone who knows just enough about computer security to know that I know nothing.
So the greasemonkey scripting language is isolated enough from everything else to prevent, say, a buffer overflow from being exploited by a url that’s too long? I’m not saying your script has an exploitable error, I just mean in theory.
Basically user scripts work by injecting themselves into a web page after it has already been completely downloaded from the source and operates on code that exists only in your browser. For example users of the Avatar script will notice when loading a thread the entire page and all the posts load first, then the avatars are added once the full page has loaded. So there isn’t a whole lot that anyone from the outside can do to interact directly with a running script in a user’s browser.
At one time, about 8 years ago, a fairly serious security hole was found in Greasemonkey (as has been in every browser, email program, webserver, and operating system, until they were identified and fixed) where a script could gain access beyond what a javascript should normally be allowed to have. It was not only patched immediately within Greasemonkey but the browsers (Mozilla at the time and now Google with Chrome) decided not to take any chances and built their own security into the browsers to limit user scripts to the same “sandbox” that all remote javascript is limited to.
Anything might be able to be hacked to some extent in some way, but user scripts are as secure as any other code that might be running in your browser whether through an add-ons, extensions, or loaded at a visited website.
I hope he’s handsome. I’ve always wanted to be handsome. And look good in hats. (I can’t wear hats. I always feel I look dorky in hats. All hats. Any hat.)
Well, I know I play a lot less solitaire (actually, Freecell) since I stopped using my crappy dial-up with the flaky line and got high speed cable modem. Not that that affectss anyone else’s experience.
That’s sensible.
Seconded.
SSSSH! You’re affecting the flavor of the thread, the texture and massing of the prose that alters the character, ebb, flow and intellectual signature of this discourse.
Maybe if the color scheme were a little bit less indigo …
Now that I have seen his gallery, that just means that people whose faces I didn’t know, I now know. If there is a single anti-avatar person in there, they are a hypocrite.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE YOUR PERSONAL PIC IN YOUR AVATAR!
Also I’m annoyed now that I am on my home computer where I have the script installed, and still can’t see the avatars. 
Do you mean you can’t see any avatars, or that you don’t see SDMB portrait gallery images? The avatar script doesn’t have any links to SDMB Portrait gallery images (but you can add custom avatars for any poster you want using any image you want in the custom avatar section).
If you mean you can’t see any avatars at all you might double check that the script is enabled not just installed, and if that is the case, it might help to reinstall it in case something got inadvertently edited or deleted from the original.
(Is he high?)
Elmwood is making fun of the position many posters in previous threads took that despite there being no reason they would ever see avatars, it would change the board in some undefinable, unmeasurable, but unmistakable way for the worse.
I don’t give hoot about the script using my gallery picture, because I’ll bet there are less than two dozen posters on the whole SDMB that use the script.
It doesn’t use the gallery picture. It uses the picture or link to a picture in your user profile.
Whatever. Nobody is going to see it anyway.
"SDMB Avatars
By SDCrazyhorse — Last update Jul 7, 2012 — Installed 412 times. "
Is that the current total or have there been more since July 7th
That is the current total. The text I copied just happened to include the last modified date too. In fairness at least 100 of those are duplicates from people downloaded updates during the development, but also in fairness there are many who just copy/paste the script and don’t use the installer. My very rough guess as to how many individual users have the script is about 150-200.
I see a cute woman who looks like Bernadette Peters hugging an older gentleman sitting in a chair.
If you are the Bernadette clone, can I have your phone number?
That’s going to be a long distance call.
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I don’t normally like animated avatars, but yours has kind of a pleasant hypnotic feel to it.
I just give 'em what they want.