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To: brucecw
I'm not talking about the clock at homelandsecurityus.net.

No, not all java scripts prompt before running.

Yes there IS an embedded code in the source for what I'm referring.

I'm done posting publicly on this for now. I will update when I can.
14,155 posted on 01/23/2004 7:00:03 AM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Calpernia
No, not all java scripts prompt before running.

JavaScript normally doesn't prompt before running - it's not a binary executable, and it's limited to playing with things only within the JavaScript "sandbox." So it's normally never a threat (In the early days of the Internet there were some early browsers which had bugs in the JavaScript implementation that could have been troublesome from a security standpoint, but nobody uses such old technology any more).

A clock using an embedded binary of some kind could indeed be a threat - and you should be prompted before such a thing would be allowed to run.

14,161 posted on 01/23/2004 7:50:09 AM PST by brucecw
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To: Calpernia
"I'm not talking about the clock at homelandsecurityus.net.

No, not all java scripts prompt before running.

Yes there IS an embedded code in the source for what I'm referring."

Thank God I haven't linked to the site!

At first I thought it was a US federal government site and was almost to go there. Thanks for the warning.
14,678 posted on 01/24/2004 12:10:31 PM PST by labolarueda
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