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15% of browsers? I don't believe it. This has definitely not been my experience. You must be counting scrapers/bots in this total. Security? The browser sandbo

by kondro 13y ago

15% of browsers? I don't believe it. This has definitely not been my experience. You must be counting scrapers/bots in this total. Security? The browser sandboxes everything.

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andor 13y ago
Some people have valuable data inside their browsers. Javascript code can access this data. Also, browsers aren't bug-free, and enabling Javascript significantly increases the attack surface.
- tokenizerrr 13y ago
  Like what kind of data?
  - straight_talk 13y ago
    Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
    - tokenizerrr 13y ago
      Except that Javascript cannot access that, unless some glaring design flaws have been made. If you disagree with me, and believe it can, I would just love to see a webpage that dumps out valuable data inside my browser. I'll visit it without any browser plugins using the same session I have been using for over a month, promise!
      - straight_talk 13y ago
        A human would never make "glaring design flaws".