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"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:42:35 +0200
> Morten Reistad <first@last.navn> wrote:
>
>> In article <ILWdnVDmvrKguz3InZ2dnUU78WednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>> Andrew Swallow  <am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> >Self playing things will have to go. Nothing executable from the
>> >internet. A (new?) video format will need choosing. No holes in it.
>> >Take the programmable macro facilities out of word processors and other
>> >office software. (Facilities like search, formatting and spelling
>> >checking will have to be coded into the source code.)
>>
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> There will always be some programmatic device that slips through the
>> mesh. Like all the lua-enabled systems.
>>
>> Better to let them play out in a sandbox, where you set the execution
>> environment to be a safe one that can at the very worst use cpu cycles,
>> send bits to and from the network, and do a dos attack against itself.
>
> The original idea of JavaScript, the first crack in the box was the
> ability to populate a file upload field from JavaScript. But even when
> fully sandboxed it still has access to every form field you fill in and 
> the
> network so it can be used to create form loggers if it can be injected 
> into
> a page

But you are free to only use a form filler that you have access to
the code of so you can check what it does with the form field
data and know that it can not access anything but that data.

> (see cross-site scripting).

Irrelevant to access to other data on your system.

By definition anything that supplies any data to the
net can be supplying it to more than just what the
user intends to supply data to. That is a separate
problem entirely for which there is no solution at
all and which is just as big a problem with data
supplied verbally or on a paper form. 

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