A reason not to use browsers for e-mail - e-mail wiretapping (fwd)

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:51:44 +0000 (GMT)
	Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> said...

> 
> If there is real substance in this then to deploy it in the UK would seem
> to be a breach of both the Computer Misuse Act and RIPA.
> 
> The Privacy Foundation URL is worth a read. The exploit is not a bug but
> its consequences are nasty indeed.

I think it's a bug (in Javascript or in its implementations). Wasn't
Javascript meant to make it impossible to cause permanent external
effects on the computer it was run on, in the same way as Java? Yes,
I have heard that Javascript is weaker than Java, but it is almost
impossible to read many web sites without it these days.

Could this problem arise in Java?

It is looking like Microsoft Word macros all over again :-( .

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