[cap-talk] "Immutable Law" #1 is alive and well at Microsoft

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.com
Fri Oct 5 12:03:41 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 15:58 +0000, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> MarkM wrote:
> > 
> > My point is that this law also doesn't apply to Javascript running in
> > the normal browser sandbox. No improvements to the status quo are
> > needed or relevant to show the bogosity of this law.
> > 
> Unfortunately, browser bugs have been exploited to take over the process
> running the browser.  (Isn't that what happened to you, MarkM?)  People
> would say that the law doesn't apply to any old program from a bad guy,
> just one that takes control of a process.

So all I have to do is stop running your code, right Alan? :-)
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