Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> It's just that, we all being able to pull JS code in plain text from a
> given server, from any place on the world, doesn't really help classifying
> that code as a closed source.
Sorry, but you're arguing against a strawman: I didn't claim that the code
was "closed source", I said that it's non-Free, which it is.
>> Security against buffer overflow exploits comes from a security-conscious
>> design.
>
> That's what I meant by a (correct) specification and a compliant
> implementation.
And here too, I'm afraid you're missing the point. The same specification
can be implemented in 2 perfectly compliant ways, one being secure and one
insecure. A JIT is inherently insecure.
>>Converting untrusted code into native machine code and executing
>> that is NOT a security-conscious design, it just begs to get exploited.
>
> Still, it's can be correctly designed to really lower the risk (or
> even eliminate it).
I don't believe the risk can be eliminated entirely. There will always be
unacceptable risk if you execute native code generated at runtime from an
untrusted source.
> It's changing. HTML5 and JS are going to be the front-ends for such
> remote services provided by those cloud platforms. And these are the
> standard way (vs. Adobe's Flash for example) to deliver a rich
> experience to the end-user, right in his browser, and IMHO we should
> support that.
Well, that's not what HTML, nor the underlying HTTP, was designed for. I
don't see it as being an appropriate platform for software at all. (And I
don't see plugins such as Flash as being the solution either. I believe this
needs a completely different protocol, e.g. NX is something going in that
direction.)
And IMHO, as a Free Software distribution, we should do all we can to
promote Free Software installed on the end user's machine where he/she has
full control (freedom!) over the software rather than remote services, web
or otherwise.
Kevin Kofler
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