Re: How safe is Java script?

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister@localhost.localdomain)
Date: 07/04/02 

From: BitTwister@localhost.localdomain (Bit Twister)
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:19:24 GMT

On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:12:56 +0200, Tore Lund wrote:
> Bit Twister wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 14:35:44 +0200, Tore Lund wrote:
>>> Heavens, man. If you are going to criticize javascript, then do it in a
>>> way that is at least halfway convincing.
>>>
>>> There is not a single piece of hard information in this story. So how
>>> can your bud be sure that this calamity was caused by javascript? Might
>>> as well have been gremlins from outer space as long as we have no
>>> evidence to the contrary.
>>
>> Hey, I'll beleive him. When you see "vulnerabilities" or "exploit"
>> anything goes. Since you wanted "facts"
>> http://guninski.com/opera1-desc.html
>
> Seems to be a problem with Opera rather than with Javascript.

You seemed to have lost why I responded. You slamed "Larry W4CSC's" post
because it "had no facts" that javascript wiped out partitions.

I showed tha javascript enabled could be expoited. Does not mater
tha Opera may be a fault. Larry's warning about javascript can
lead to an exploit is valid.