Is InfoWorld After My Privacy? Or Worse?

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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