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ActiveX - Big Brother threat (was: Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age)




On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:

[... snipped ...]

> ... I think we still should be in arms against M$-conform
> web-designing with all kind of propriety extensions that only run on
> Windows/IE. I think the great danger lies there and NOT in the encoding
> issue. The moment all the interactive parts need ActiveX or any of their
> other 'features', all non-M$ users are left out and maybe still able to
> see the page, but not contribute.

There are also the security problems associated with mandatory usage of 
ActiveX (or, for that matter, Java).  If one is forced to use a 
proprietary browser, one can never know whether the Big Brotherish 
Government exploits security holes to control the user's PC.  If one uses 
an open source browser, one at least has at his disposal peer review of 
the browser's code security.
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