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JavaScript is the most deployed interpreter in the world, and therefore almost certainly handling the greatest amount of independent data in the world. So wheth
by javajosh 11y ago
JavaScript is the most deployed interpreter in the world, and therefore almost certainly handling the greatest amount of independent data in the world. So whether or not you think it's a bad joke, it's important.
- tptacek 11y agoI think I sent the wrong message with the Intercal comparison. My point was that the logic that brings you to "you need Javascript if you specialize in Javascript security" works for any language, including Intercal. It was not that Javascript is a language as dumb as Intercal. If I had to make a list of 3 languages to know for security people, Javascript would probably be my #3 (Java might be #3, and Javascript #4; I'd have to think about it.) BTW: Unlike a lot of people on this thread, assembly wouldn't be in my top 5. It is much, much more important that appsec people be able to fluently write C than it is that they be good assembly programmers. Even full-time reversers don't spend that much time reading assembly in bulk.