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Why you can't just disable JavaScript

WEB BROWSER SECURITY

Author(s): KURT SEIFRIED

As ugly and hard to secure as JavaScript is, it could be worse – we could be using ActiveX.

JavaScript – can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The modern web is amazing; I can pay my bills, buy a laptop, and order hot pizza all from my web browser. To do all these activities, I must have a web browser with JavaScript enabled. If I disable it, I
can’t read my email, pay my bills, buy anything, or view approximately half the websites on the planet.


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