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From: Ron Johnson on 14 May 2010 15:40 On 05/14/2010 02:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] > > But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash > and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software > implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will > usually be 100% proprietary. > By your logic (since any language implementation can be used to write proprietary software) gcc is dangerous. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BEDA547.8060007(a)cox.net
From: Tzafrir Cohen on 17 May 2010 21:10
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:32:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/2010 02:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > [snip] >> >> But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash >> and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software >> implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will >> usually be 100% proprietary. >> > > By your logic (since any language implementation can be used to write > proprietary software) gcc is dangerous. Nope. Ghostscript might be dangerous, as it may run untrusted (postscript) code. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best tzafrir(a)debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100518010650.GC16560(a)pear.tzafrir.org.il |