Be Still my Bleeding Heart …

Be Still my Bleeding Heart …

Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armored cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and checks written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.” — Dr. Eugene Spafford, (Web Security & Commerce, p9, O’Reilly, 1997, S. Garfinkel & G. Spafford)

Apple Worm Infects Myspace

Some time ago, I became engaged in a rather interesting discussion with… lets just call them a neophyte where JavaScript is concerned. In any event, my contention at the time was, JavaScript can be used to deliver malicious code due to its tight coupling with the DOM.