eWeek: AJAX Poses Security, Performance Risks

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At 1:09 PM -0500 1/30/06, Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:
> Any AJAX experts here want to comment on the eWeek article cited below?
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1916673,00.asp
>
> It claims, among other things that, "AJAX dramatically increases the amount of 
> XML network traffic being transmitted, exposing applications to Web services 
> vulnerabilities".

I have been involved in a dialog with AJAX fans (which is different from
experts) who say "you security folks just have to bow to the inevitable
and figure out how to secure whatever mechanism we come up with.

As for the article, it is obviously self-serving for someone's product.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen