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I 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
by techntoke 8y ago
I 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.