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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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Failure of the application to provide a safe environment 2004-04-30
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.

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