Stop Being a Victim

Stop Being a Victim
Tim Mullen, 2004-04-27

An influential newspaper columnist blames "contemptuous techies" for allowing users to fall prey to viruses and spyware. But don't some users deserve a little contempt?

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Anonymous

Respectfully, I disagree. Native executables are not a problem. The problem is that HTML and XML are themselves script languages (a interpreted executable) and must be allowed for execution for any browser to work. This is how the content of the web is made dynamic.

It is not the fault of the application writer that the application does what is was designed to do, and that turns out to be harmful. Sort of like blaming Ferrari when someone crashes their product at 150 mph huh?

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