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Re: techport80

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Sep 19, 2002
• 519 views

On  0, Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for posting the article on Java security.  Very informative. I 
> > would like to point out a new key points about that article and that web 
> > page though.  Also I agree with you in the fact that newer isn't always 
> > better.  Further, I would like to state that JavaScript is used 
> > sparingly on my website and that you can read anything on my site should 
> > you choose to turn JavaScript off.  
> 
> Strangely, turning it off, *if you can*, doesn't prevent your puter from going
>
> out to download the latest addons to the scripting languages, as i found out 
> the hard way a few months ago. They are downloaded, even if you had 
> checked Do Not Run, in case you might want to run them later. The badly 
> botched auto-install deleted/corrupted needed files for IE and Explorer. I am 
> still missing the proper icon for IE, but that's no problem.
> 

Ah, the joys of Linux and Opera 

> > JavaScript is safe.  There is very little you can do with 
> > JavaScript, as a standalone tool, that is not what it was intended to 
> > do.  When combined with other tools, JavaScript poses a little more of a 
> > risk, but that risk is minimal.  
> 
> I lost a computer to javascript. The bios was written to, and was not 
> recoverable or replaceable. The harddrive was corrupted, and i lost a lot of 
> material. Javascript is used for redirects, windows that can't be closed, etc 
> etc.
> 

Its hard to believe thats possible. I dont see how javascript can
corrupt
a filesystem, or overwrite a BIOS!! What browser and what version and
which
site was this?


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