Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

[JD]

On 07/02/2011 05:16 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 7/1/11 9:14 PM, JD wrote:
>> Common people! JAVASCRIPT being executed by your
>> browser on  your system is a HUGE WIDE OPEN SECURITY HOLE!!!
>>
> You do have the option of turning it off, you know.  That is one thing
> every security expert knows about and disables in a major way.
>
> James
>
>
Yes, I just replied to Reindl Harald
my reasons for making this a public
issue. It is, IMHO, a big travesty that
it has not been made it into the public
awareness sphere. You have heard the
MSMs sometimes mention newsclips
about computer files theft (recently, by China),
and yet theMSMs have never mentioned the
biggest facillitator of such theft:
javascript.

Unfortunately, many if not most websites
will not work if javascript is disabled.

Try google maps, for example, after you
uncheck, in Firefox, Edit->Preferences->Content->Enable Javascript.
If you then browse to maps.google.com, you will get a blank map screen.

Cheers,

JD