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For this progress report, I've continued investigating the app, especially in
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ways it could be circumvented. Through this investigation, I've learned a lot
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about how Google Chrome extensions actually inject scripts into the page, as
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well as security implications of doing so. In particular, I learned that content
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scripts belonging to extensions are executed in a separate space from the page,
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and so the only way they could possibly interact with the page is through
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appending text-only attributes to the page when it loads.
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I also patched the bug where window.open could be exploited to use the APIs of
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another open window, by replacing that call with a Proxy object that calls the
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blocking function on the returned window object. Elliott made the addition of
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blocking all APIs recursively from there, something I overlooked. Here's a link
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to my fork of the extension, including the Proxy patch developed by me and
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Elliott:
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https://github.com/iptq/web-api-manager
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Finally, our group spent some time working on the paper, which Sam submitted a
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first draft of tonight.
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