Re: Multilingual Logo Design

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:52:57 -0400, Shawn K. Quinn wrote
(in message <6KCdnT6wR-PIFM-iRVn-sA (AT) speakeasy (DOT) net>):

That said, all I get is a bunch of baloney about enabling Javascript
and frames.

Is there a version of their logo that I can view without exposing my
system to potential security hazards?

Out of curiosity, what type of security hazards does one expose oneself
to by enabling JavaScript in their browser, other than the risk of popup
windows (which any decent browser allows you to block anyway)?

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J Brady

In article <0001HW.BB78232F0004215DF0305600 (AT) enews (DOT) newsguy.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Jonathan Brady
<jbrady (AT) removethisspamkiller (DOT) myfmail.com> wrote:

Out of curiosity, what type of security hazards does one expose oneself
to by enabling JavaScript in their browser,

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_FAQ.html

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:56:04 -0400, Stan Brown wrote
(in message <MPG.19bd362257e1111798b2ad (AT) news (DOT) odyssey.net>):

Out of curiosity, what type of security hazards does one expose
oneself to by enabling JavaScript in their browser,

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_FAQ.html

Have you read that page? And the couple of linked pages from it?

It's so vague and outdated it's not even useful anymore. The only thing
that they say is that 'malicious code' could be passed around. The
server has to be very badly designed and the browser has to be crappy
for 'some malicious code' to have a chance of working.

What kind of 'malicious code' could be written with JavaScript that
would warrant this kind of paranoia? I need examples, not some link to a
general page that doesn't mention anything but vague 'malicious code'.

Active X could be used to build malicious stuff because the technology
was built to grant the applet/control/doohickey too much power over the
computer executing the code, but that has nothing to do with JavaScript
alone.

I use a Mac, with safari as my default browser. What kind of risk am I
putting my online computing life in by allowing JavaScripts to execute
on my machine?

Please if you're one of those paranoid people that don't use any
interactive web browsing things, enlighten me -- what should I be afraid
of? give me an example of something that happened with you that made you
that paranoid; maybe I should be as paranoid too but never had a reason
for it yet.

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J Brady