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by valtism 2857 days ago
I think you have a misunderstanding of what AJAX is. I have no idea what you are getting at with the political rambling about metadata and Trump.
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ifur 2857 days ago
Perhaps, but I know the implications of javascript. This allows mouse and keyboard events from the browser and is the most insecure language known.

What concerns Trump is merely that this technically allows political manipulation by having a short and cheap route to be able to do just that.

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krapp 2857 days ago
>and is the most insecure language known.

Hyperbolic nonsense. Javascript couldn't even aspire to be as insecure as C.

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ifur 2857 days ago
>Hyperbolic nonsense. Javascript couldn't even aspire to be as insecure as C.

If that's hyperbole, I'm in stable orbit around earth.

https://deadliestwebattacks.com/2013/01/22/know-your-javascr...

https://www.cnet.com/news/faq-javascript-insecurities/

Wannabe "fiddlers" love JS as everything works.

"They should peruse their Web site for cross-site scripting flaws and fix those."

Every site is now cross-site with FB and Google, even using them as JS service providers. It has shot security that inherently dead.

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