A topic of concern in Linux

[Alex Snow]

I don't know why everyone hates javascript so much. from a web 
developer's point of view it's an extremely powerful tool.On Mon, Jan 
19, 2004 at 09:34:36PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well, this sounds like some other features in windows; uh,
> accessibility? that was tacked on after the fact too.  I refer
> particularly to their "active accessibility."
> 
> Another thing that contributes to the proliferation of this malware is
> the use of active content in web pages and e-mails.  Hence HTML mail
> is evil! Another big reason to hate javascript.  Those scripts can be
> used to launch local code on your machine to do God knows what and we
> can't look at a lot of it because it is secret proprietary code.
> Correction: the HTML stuff can often be looked at locally offline but
> I think that flash stuff is protected.  Stick to text-only web and
> e-mail and those outlets will never spy on you.  Now if somebody gets
> the bright idea of "calling home" from a standard desktop application,
> that would be another story.  But that can be watched as long as the
> source remains available.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:49:15PM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> > Hmmm, not quite correct, but it is true to say that, for example, the 
> > Outlook-type worm couldn't spread in Linux just because there's not an app 
> > that works that way.  In addition, Winblows was not, orriginally, written 
> > with networks in general and the Internet in particular in mind (MS 
> > released a press release that indirectly stated this fact 2 or 3 years 
> > ago), where that is precisely Linux's strength, and therefore it has 
> > security built-in from the ground up, rather than being tagged on later.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
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