[LINK] Mozilla - slow progress

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Heck with it, since I'm already in print: to my horror, when I hit Ctrl-U
during Internet banking, I discovered stuff like my account number and
detailed session information in the Javascript, in clear text.

And timing the download, I also infer that the Javascript is cacheable,
since it starts slower after I clear the cache.

I no longer use Internet banking...

Richard Chirgwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Keith [mailto:gordon.keith@marine.csiro.au]
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 13:29
To: Craig Sanders
Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] Mozilla - slow progress


On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:50, Craig Sanders wrote:

> i disable java on all browsers anyway. there's no way that i want
> some web page developer running code on my computer just because i
> visit their web site.
>
> i usually have javascript disabled too (although there's less risk
> with that) and only enable it for certain sites that i need to use
> that wont work without it.

I'm very intrigued by the statement that there is less risk in 
javascript than java. My understanding was that it was very much the 
other way around. 

Java was designed with a security sandbox and a java applet has very 
controlled access to the machine it is running on. 

Javascript has no security sandbox and can do a whole lot more to the 
machine it is run on. 

I have java disabled for the same reason as I disable images, its 
mostly a waste of bandwidth.

I have javascript disabled want because I don't want some web page 
developer running code on my computer just because I visit their web 
site.

Regards
Gordon