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Re: [Bricklin] javascript

To: adam lazur <adam@lazur.org>
Subject: Re: [Bricklin] javascript
From: Alan Morton <adm222@epguides.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:22:21 -0500
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Javascript is evil.  It makes your computer do things you do not want it to do. 
 Cookies are also evil but less evil, the thing I saw on Tv was about a new type
of cookie that stays on your computer even if you turn the power off and unloug
it.  

Quoting adam lazur <adam@lazur.org>:

> Despite the similarity in name, Java and Jacascript are vastly different.
> 
> 
> Java as run in your browser is awful and should be avoided at all costs. It
> has a history of security issues that take a long time to be fixed.
> 
> 
> JavaScript is fine. So are cookies.B 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .adam
> 
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Smoky & Connie Panepinto
> <panepintos@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > Yes; I agree from my readings and checking with my techie friends.  Don't
> > click 'yes' to the request from Java for the update..... I have  been
> > clicking 'no' for many months now based on their advice.  The older
> version
> > I have seems to allow me to operate without any hiccups, and I have
> avoided
> > the newer, more insidious version, at least so far.
> > Thanks for the tip, Alan.
> > Smoky P.
> > Smoky Panepinto,
> > Perkiomenville, PA
> > Editor, Phila. Lincoln Owner's Club Continental STAR newsletter
> > Original Owner '75 Bricklin - Suntan; VIN 1302
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bricklin [mailto:bricklin-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Alan
> > Morton
> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 9:33 AM
> > To: bricklin@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Bricklin] javascript
> > Javascript is evil.  I do not have it, and thus soem poorly designed
> > websites do not work for me.  I just saw something on the news a week or
> so
> > ago saying it is best if you do have it to turn it off if you want to
> > protect sensitive inof you may have on your computer.  It was sort of a
> > sidebar to the main story about a new type of cookies even more evil than
> > noraml cookies as they do not diappear when you quit your web browser or
> > reboot your computer.
> > I do not have it but I beleive the newest version of my web browser,
> > Classilla, does have the option to turn javascript on for sites that you
> > choose or it has a known safe category of.
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