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Is InfoWorld After My Privacy? Or Worse?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:08:56 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is bad -- and I'll tell you why in one sentence (or maybe two). Clearly, this crosses over the "safety boundry". By forcing users to allow JavaScript to "experience" the "feature-rich content" hosted on websites like this, it forces the ordinary Internet user to allow themselves to be victimized by nefarious websites containing malicious JavaScript. Sure, there are great tools -- like NoScript for Firefox -- which allow users to selectively determine which sites to allow JavaScript functionality, but the average Internet user is most likely going to get burned because of this "Tragedy of the Commons". More: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-infoworld-after-my-privacy-or-worse .html (Props, Tom Sanders.) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwnxRq1pz9mNUZTMRAhQEAJ49r7RmKYiEAcXN8XvPL6Afv4jWDwCfdnKc WXMhGFcNnkMMqfoy3rbtkaU= =vON4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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