My first thought when I read your post was that perhaps the most effective way to convince your boss, would be a demonstration.

Put together a page that would demonstrate how the system could be compromised on your harddisk and then show your boss how easy it would be to use.

My second thought was that this might be dangerous to your employment prospects. If your boss decided that, even though you were showing him what and how it could be done rather than doing it, might take umbridge at you doing so.

My third thought was that even just discussing this subject here, even without your companies name, URL or other information, could be construed as a security breach!. I did a google search on your name, and came up with only 20 hits! Hopefully, none of these is your name? At least not in anyway that is linked with your companies website? Did you ever add your name to a comment or changes: block in any of the company web pages?

Basically, I don't have any good advice with regard to your problem, but I would strongly advise you use great caution in telling your boss how and where you got any advise you do get.

Good luck.

In reply to Re: The danger of hidden fields by BrowserUk
in thread The danger of hidden fields by Gerard

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