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Re: ActiveX - Big Brother threat (was: Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age)
Who said anything about ActiveX?
Uri
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Omer Zak wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
> [... snipped ...]
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> > ... 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.
> --- Omer
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