From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
Subject: Re: Can Ada be hacked?
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 06:57:57 -0500
Date: 2011-03-07T06:57:57-05:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <op.vryhqjvrule2fv@douda-yannick>
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> I'm afraid nobody would care. What made FireFox popular among
> self-so-called “geeks”, was plugins (Mozilla get a lot of free advertising
> via buzzes generated by the plugins/addons fever). Just a very few little
> people are interested in application source, even more true with a
> browser. What matters is (ordered by relevancy): 1) is it free to download
> ? 2) will this play YouTube and DailyMotion medias fine ? 3) Will this
> help me to look “geeky” or “fashioned” in others eyes ?
You are probably right but some sort of ultra reliable browser might be of
itnerest to certain niche markets. I've had a few problems interacting with
my bank due to browser quirks (JavaScript incompatibilities?) and that
didn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Of course the first step in
creating such a browser would probably be to ban plugins and maybe even to
ban JavaScript. I'm sure that wouldn't be popular among casual users (which
includes myself most of the time).
Peter
> P.S.2. If JavaScript appeared to be unsafe, this was primarily because it
> was a first target to attack. I am not sure even SPARK would be enough to
> prevent all troubles when so much energy is dedicated to break security
> (that's not just a matter of things like buffer overflows or out-of-range
> values).
One could perhaps implement a JavaScript with extra run time checking at the
JavaScript language level. I really don't know. Of course it would run more
slowly.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:44 Can Ada be hacked? Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-01 2:15 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-03-01 7:01 ` Numerical software in Ada (was: Re: Can Ada be hacked?) Dirk Craeynest
2011-03-18 8:19 ` Numerical software in Ada Simon Wright
2011-03-01 7:41 ` Can Ada be hacked? Shark8
2011-03-01 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01 8:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-07 4:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-09 9:10 ` Lucretia
2011-03-09 9:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01 11:17 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 11:39 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-03-01 12:00 ` Gautier write-only
2011-03-01 15:06 ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-02 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 12:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01 15:40 ` Julian Leyh
2011-03-01 18:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-03-01 18:13 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2011-03-01 23:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-04 18:15 ` Tero Koskinen
2011-03-04 20:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-05 1:14 ` Shark8
2011-03-07 4:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-02 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 19:53 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 4:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 11:57 ` Peter C. Chapin [this message]
2011-03-07 13:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 18:05 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-03-07 18:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-03-07 4:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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