From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "John Beckett" 
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> news:gg0hf193i55cr5s50s2bmt3ljbg1e2k58u{at}4ax.com...
> I still want raw sockets and I do want a powerful scripting language. What I
> don't want is a powerful scripting feature where security is an afterthought
> like the scripting available in IE. I'd like to see Microsoft learn
> something from the past 8 years of virus infestations, from melissa, from
> all the things that have proven that security needs to be considered as
> important if not more important than checkboxes on the sales brochure.
>
> I'd like to see them treat the news of monad "virus" as a
wakeup call that
> monad is already becoming a target, not as a PR issue.

This is all good, except for the last paragraph. We should know enough
about the industry to use correct terminology. We should also recognise
nonsense when it is pointed out.

The article you posted with the "PoC" is nonsense. It is just
OBVIOUS that a scripting language can do bad things. We don't need some kid
to tell us that. If anything, the kid is guilty of yelling
"Wolf". He has nothing to say, and is only going to dull the
senses of the public if it ever turns out that there is a problem with
Monad.

Sure, if it turns out that IE can invoke scripts when you visit a web page,
I will run around screaming "DON'T PANIC, DON'T PANIC", while
trying to uninstall everything vaguely related to scripting. We just don't
need a PoC to tell us that allowing IE to run Monad scripts would lead to a
string of interesting "Golly, we didn't think of that" bulletins
from Microsoft.

John

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