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JavaScript - Good Reasons to Disable it - topic here ..
What – no Javascript? : on Web Matters sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl by Stephen Poley : http://sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl/webmatters/whatnojs.html
'Among the reasons for disabling Javascript are the SECURITY reasons:
'Internet Explorer is riddled with security holes, many of them related to Javascript. Experienced security consultants not infrequently recommend that users of IE should always disable Javascript. True, users of browsers such as Opera and Firefox, which have a pretty good reputation on the security front, don’t have to worry quite so much about this. But why take chances unnecessarily?
People have for example been stung with enormous telephone bills – €1000 or more – due to illicit dialing software surreptitiously installed on their systems by web-sites. Even if the security holes which enable this sort of operation are not in Javascript itself, Javascript can be used as a tool to exploit security holes elsewhere.' ..
..'So if you are browsing the Web, there are reasons aplenty to disable Javascript, particularly when visiting unfamiliar sites.
And if you are authoring a site, and make it unreadable without Javascript, you are shooting yourself in the foot.'
What – no Javascript? : on Web Matters sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl by Stephen Poley : http://sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl/webmatters/whatnojs.html
'Among the reasons for disabling Javascript are the SECURITY reasons:
'Internet Explorer is riddled with security holes, many of them related to Javascript. Experienced security consultants not infrequently recommend that users of IE should always disable Javascript. True, users of browsers such as Opera and Firefox, which have a pretty good reputation on the security front, don’t have to worry quite so much about this. But why take chances unnecessarily?
People have for example been stung with enormous telephone bills – €1000 or more – due to illicit dialing software surreptitiously installed on their systems by web-sites. Even if the security holes which enable this sort of operation are not in Javascript itself, Javascript can be used as a tool to exploit security holes elsewhere.' ..
..'So if you are browsing the Web, there are reasons aplenty to disable Javascript, particularly when visiting unfamiliar sites.
And if you are authoring a site, and make it unreadable without Javascript, you are shooting yourself in the foot.'
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