[Bricklin] javascript

[adam lazur]

Despite the similarity in name, Java and Jacascript are vastly different.


Java as run in your browser is awful and should be avoided at all costs. It
has a history of security issues that take a long time to be fixed.


JavaScript is fine. So are cookies.B 






.adam

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Smoky & Connie Panepinto
<panepintos at verizon.net> wrote:

> Yes; I agree from my readings and checking with my techie friends.  Don't
> click 'yes' to the request from Java for the update..... I have  been
> clicking 'no' for many months now based on their advice.  The older version
> I have seems to allow me to operate without any hiccups, and I have avoided
> the newer, more insidious version, at least so far.
> Thanks for the tip, Alan.
> Smoky P.
> Smoky Panepinto,
> Perkiomenville, PA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bricklin [mailto:bricklin-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Alan
> Morton
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 9:33 AM
> To: bricklin at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Bricklin] javascript
> Javascript is evil.  I do not have it, and thus soem poorly designed
> websites do not work for me.  I just saw something on the news a week or so
> ago saying it is best if you do have it to turn it off if you want to
> protect sensitive inof you may have on your computer.  It was sort of a
> sidebar to the main story about a new type of cookies even more evil than
> noraml cookies as they do not diappear when you quit your web browser or
> reboot your computer.
> I do not have it but I beleive the newest version of my web browser,
> Classilla, does have the option to turn javascript on for sites that you
> choose or it has a known safe category of.
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