Re: [PHP] Re: A Little Something.

At 3:11 PM -0400 5/12/08, Eric Butera wrote:
>
>NoScript is a FireFox extension to protect users from malicious
>scripts.

NoScript is also a tag for browsers to read and react to IF they do 
not accept javascript.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_noscript.asp

That's an unfortunate naming convention from FireFox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

>  JS is indeed very dangerous right now especially as mashups
>continue to gain popularity and all of that personal information
>floating around.  Subscribe to planet websecurity and see the truth.
>
>The way I deal with urchin is by /etc/hosts'ing out google's
>adservers.  Then we all win, right?  ;)
>
>Here is a fairly current rant:
>http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-TBPekxc1dLNy5DOloPfzVvFIVOWMB0li?p=819


Okay, I read that -- but what does that have to do with urchin?

Urchin is not an ad delivery system, but rather a way to keep track 
of visitors to your web site.

Now, how is that a security threat? Or is the claim that any site 
that uses js is a security threat?

Cheers,

tedd

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