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Today's Topics:

   1. Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl gone...
      (Trevor Cordes)
   2. massive equifax hack (Trevor Cordes)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:24:43 -0500
From: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca>
To: MUUG RndTbl <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: [RndTbl] Firefox remote control / or headless js? MozRepl
        gone...
Message-ID: <20170908052443.GA10410@pog.tecnopolis.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

MozRepl, which I use to remotely control Firefox, is officially broken as
of FF55 and the devs say it won't be fixed and can't really work in the
future anyhow as FF ditches XPCOM.  That means I can't use
WWW::Mechanize::Firefox anymore (as demo'd (demoed? demod?...) in a MUUG
meeting a couple of years back).
(https://github.com/bard/mozrepl/issues/68#issuecomment-322212759)

So I'm left looking for alternatives... Anyone else know of / is using any
good progrmamatic browser remote-controllers?  Hopefully they'd support FF
and Perl, but I could convert/find workarounds if it supported different
browser/languages.

Also, beyond that, are there any good libraries /modules for interacting
with web pages "headless", that is, having the dom and js handled all in
memory without any actual browser or window showing?

I'd love to hear about personal experience / anecdotes, but just rattling
off some names to research would be helpful too.  Thanks!


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 05:06:56 -0500
From: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca>
To: MUUG RndTbl <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: [RndTbl] massive equifax hack
Message-ID: <20170908100656.GA3883@pog.tecnopolis.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Equifax blew it and allowed SQL injection (that's soooo 2005) vulns to
leak access to id/credit details of 143M Americans, as well as undisclosed
number of Canadians and UK.  This is pretty big news.  No word yet on how
Canadians can check their status or access the freebies they are handing
out.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3016920/equifax-hack-exposes-personal-details-of-44-per-cent-of-us-citizens


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