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Eich founded Mozilla and invented Javascript. He's done far more to promote free expression than to hamper it.
by drak0n1c 8y ago
Eich founded Mozilla and invented Javascript. He's done far more to promote free expression than to hamper it.
- brewdad 8y agoWith one massive blind spot when it comes to the free expression of one's sexuality.
- techntoke 8y agoI don't really think JavaScript has done all that much, except made it easier to advertisers/hackers to do nefarious things on users computers with a very poor permission model. In fact, it is prob the #1 used language to limit expression in other countries and track/spy on users. Mozilla wasn't founded by Eich.
- gridlockd 8y agoYou can do tracking perfectly fine without Javascript using just plain old cookies and links. Javascript can't really do anything nefarious "on the users computer" (outside the browser). You can monitor detailed clicks and perhaps steal some data from the origin (which is developer error), that's about it. The security implications of Javascript are always exaggerated, few people talk about how buggy CSS and HTML parsers or image/video decoding can be. Lots of zeroday exploits there and they keep coming.