[cap-talk] when is the end of copy and paste from the web browser

[Rob Meijer]

On Mon, December 5, 2011 05:01, John Carlson wrote:
> Right now, we have to copy lists of instruction from a web page to
> explorer, or shell.   When will be the day when we can safely directly
> execute list of instructions found in a web browser on our local machine. 
> For example, perhaps I want to install all the drivers to make Kinect work
> with Skype on Windows from a forum?  What do we we need to do to make this
> a reality?
>
> John

Lets see, we have an untrusted piece of packed/obfuscated black-box
software that has encrypted connections to a wide range of untrusted
systems on the internet. We have untrusted driver code from an untrusted
source and we have what basically is a generic user input device.

I believe that this basically resolves to being an instance of the CC
problem.