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Stephen K. Gielda

2005-11-24, 7:46 am

There has been talk of javascript being safe in here before because no
exploits had yet been found. One has now.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1891749,00.asp?
kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

/steve
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thunderbird

2005-11-25, 7:46 am

So your saying that until now there wasn't a problem? I hope not.

Stephen K. Gielda

2005-11-25, 5:47 pm

In article <1132914966.235995.76570@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
netsurf1@coolgoose.com says...
> So your saying that until now there wasn't a problem? I hope not.
>
>

Me? Definitely not, I recommend against allowing anything that executes
locally for the simple reason that it executes locally.

/steve
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traveler

2005-11-26, 2:46 am

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:45:12 -0500, Stephen K. Gielda wrote:

> In article <1132914966.235995.76570@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> netsurf1@coolgoose.com says...
> Me? Definitely not, I recommend against allowing anything that executes
> locally for the simple reason that it executes locally.


Oh, that's good to know
>
> /steve

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