Timeline for Why do people disable JavaScript?
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| Apr 5, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | @dan04 and now cryptocoin mining botnets (which only require compute resources, and the ability to send results back). | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 10:32 | comment | added | sinni800 | @dan04 Or that it tries to emulate an x86 processor running Windows running a Desktop application which gets projected into your browser window - all in Javascript. Turing completeness is scary | |
| Feb 26, 2011 at 7:01 | comment | added | dan04 | Turing-completeness is only about computability. It says nothing about whether the interpreted language is allowed to open files, make HTTP requests, etc. The only inherent danger in Turing-completeness is the possibility of an infinite loop. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 15:25 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @haylem: Being Turing-complete means that it is impossible to mechanically prove secure in the general case. Heck, it's even impossible to prove basic things like that it doesn't run forever. For a more restrictive language, it would be possible for the client browser to prove that the script isn't doing something dangerous. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 14:56 | comment | added | haylem | +1 for the funny analogy. Though the fact that it's Turing complete has *nothing to do with the dangerousness of the execution. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 5:39 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 2.5 |