It’s been blogged before but oh well I always learn by example so here is an example. The thing I’m talking about is trusting signed java applets. In short when you trust a java applet it can do whatever it wants. So what could you do with a java applet? The java source code will steal your mac address, rather useless but it serves the example purpose good enough. The stolen mac address get’s submitted to a page in this case it will be google which will look like this:
Trusting Java Applets
abusing the trust people have in signed applets.
DiabloHorn 