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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1634433" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>If a website uses one of those technologies and don't themselves provide an alternative, then no.</p><p></p><p>I'd remove Javascript from that list. Javascript, by design and implementation, can't do much to your machine. It's insulated and given little to no access to the machine that it runs on.</p><p></p><p>Java and Flash exploits are popular and successful for one simple reason - they execute irrespective of the underlying OS. Java and Flash applications are platform agnostic and only rely on their respective runtimes, which work in similar ways across platforms. The only time that they become platform specific is if they run up an OS limit (write permissions for example) or are expressly written for one specific platform which, with cross platform runtimes, may actually require more work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1634433, member: 71075"] If a website uses one of those technologies and don't themselves provide an alternative, then no. I'd remove Javascript from that list. Javascript, by design and implementation, can't do much to your machine. It's insulated and given little to no access to the machine that it runs on. Java and Flash exploits are popular and successful for one simple reason - they execute irrespective of the underlying OS. Java and Flash applications are platform agnostic and only rely on their respective runtimes, which work in similar ways across platforms. The only time that they become platform specific is if they run up an OS limit (write permissions for example) or are expressly written for one specific platform which, with cross platform runtimes, may actually require more work. [/QUOTE]
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