THE NEW LANGUAGE OF THE WEB An e-mail security filter used by Yahoo has spawned a bizarre revision of the text in hundreds of Web sites by deleting letter combinations that could be used by hackers and replacing them with innocuous words. For example, "eval" has been converted to "review", so that the word "medieval" now appears as "medireview" on many sites. A recent search conducted by British Internet site NTK found that 640 different Web sites now contain the word "medireview" in place of "medieval." The offending words, which also include "mocha" (changed to "espresso") and "expression" (replaced by "statement"), are blacklisted because they could be used for cross-site scripting -- embedding potentially dangerous code into a Web page or an e-mail message written in HTML. (New Scientist 15 Jul 2002) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992546