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Guns aren't dangerous! It's the bullets that will get you!
by stult 9y ago
Guns aren't dangerous! It's the bullets that will get you!
- netheril96 9y agoThis is not an appropriate analogy. Guns and bullets are designed to kill, but browsers and the download capability are not designed to infect your computer. Rather, they are designed with an opposite goal.
- alpos 9y agoAn "infection" in this case would be the execution of some other person's code on my computer. Browsers have been designed specifically to do this since Javascript was invented. The only difference between malware and "regular-ware" is whether the code meets certain user expectations about what it will and will not do.
- TomMarius 9y agoYes, exactly. What's your point though?