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That's the official excuse?

• jokoon 13y ago
  "official" there's nothing official about the web or web browsers. mozilla or google could release a socket implementation specific to their browser without waiting for the consent of w3c or rfc or else. There's a risk for DDOS though, which have a high cost. But XSS is a risk too, so I don't see why js sockets would be so dangerous.
  • psykovsky 13y ago
    Any software installed in a computer can turn the machine into a zombie. Why don't we lock everything down, or better yet, block the computers access to the internet, after all, no net, no DDoS...
    • jokoon 13y ago
      > Any software installed in a computer can turn the machine into a zombie. That's not true about javascript. Also the DDoS attack risk is low, it would happens only as people would visit infected websites or with XSS attacks. You can't have a botnet with js if the browser isn't turned on on an infected webpage.
      • psykovsky 13y ago
        So, all said, the restriction doesn't make much sense. I knew we would agree.