[OT] was, Re: DAMNED Re: Fedora Security and the Uverse 3800HGV-B router

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 06:40:21 JD wrote:
> Well, javascript is known to be "craftable" to do evil.
> I am sure you have already seen the links I sent.

You know, I can provide you with a whole bunch of links on the net about 
people being abducted by aliens and experimented on. Does that mean that I 
should take alien abductions as a fact of life? Or does it mean that a bunch 
of links from the net does not make a good argument in a discussion?

Links on the Internet are usually provided for *reference* purposes of their 
contents --- they should be opened, examined, and their content judged 
critically, before proceeding in any (serious) discussion. Sheer existence and 
number of links itself proves nothing, and does not serve any good to a 
discussion. Just do a google-search on "proof of Riemann hypothesis" --- there 
are millions of links it provides, but not a single one of them contains the 
actual proof of the famous Riemann's problem.

Several people have opened the links you provided, and figured that they refer 
to eight-year-old comments about javascript bugs from 1997 or so. Due to their 
age, these problems (and consequently the links themselves) are dismissed from 
the discussion as invalid --- because those problems are non-existent today.

So my advice to you is to just drop the subject. If you don't trust javascript 
yourself, you are welcome to disable it or use no-script. But please don't try 
to convince the whole world that there is a major security hole in it, because 
there isn't, and people will start labelling you as a troll if you continue to 
pursue this beyond its realistic relevance.

HTH. ;-)

Best, :-)
Marko