A while back I ran across an interesting security hole
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Looks innocuous enough, but there's a hole because, by default, the page that's being opened is allowing the opened page to call back into it via window.opener. There are some restrictions, being cross-domain, but there's still some mischief that can be done
window.opener.location = 'http://gotcha.badstuff';
Now, HTML has a workaround
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That prevents the new window from having window.opener passed to it. That's fine and good for HTML, but what if you're using window.open?
How would you block the use of window.opener being passed here?