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On 1 Jun 2005, at 18:59, Vladimir Gapeyev wrote: > > There is comfort in receiving only data, without anything executable > --- > for security reasons, if not anything else (data can be inspected for > absence of harm, code has to be trusted; even sandboxing does not help > if > the code is expected to produce side effects that are not easy to roll > back). However, people in universities do work on solving the security > side of the problem --- "proof-carrying code" (PCC) is one relevant > keyword. iirc, Google Suggest is interesting in that it returns a string of Javascript which is then executed. i guess the Google page trusts the Google service, we all trust Google (they're famously not evil) and it all works inside a sandbox (a browser) so is fairly safe. Paul -- http://blog.whatfettle.com
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