On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Bill Harris wrote:

> Rod Roark wrote:
>  
> > Keep in mind also that JavaScript security risks are more in
> > the area of "annoyances" -- e.g. opening a bunch of popup
> > windows -- JS will not allow a web site to write to your
> > hard drive, for example.
> 
> But there have been bigger problems around, such as
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-20.html (old).
> 
> CERT offers the following advice:
> http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html#IV-A-9 and
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/361600 and
> http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_FAQ.html.  From them, I
> gather that they recommend a prudent person not to enable Javascript
> (ECMAScript) unless they really need to.  
 
Those documents are _very_ old. Are they really still applicable?

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