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[Zeke Krahlin]

Rick Moen wrote:
> Well, now you know yet another reason why networks are A Good Thing.

Picture this: Martha Stewart teaching Unix. "It's a good thing." 
:b

> You might consider this a hint from the gods -- since, after all,
> Javascript is Evil and Must Die.  ;->

And thus I must agree. Do you find cgi scripts a better way to
go, or just a variation of this Evil?
How can a service like Hushmail guarantee security, when it runs
javascript to decode/encode one's messages? Isn't this kind of a
bad approach? They promote it, based on the fact that the message
is encoded on your own hard drive, not theirs...thus avoiding
en-route interception of non-encoded data. It *sounds good, in
concept...but in practice, being javascript, I have my questions.

What happens when one wants to run an e-commerce site, and pays
for a "reliable" service like CyberCash? Do they use javascript
or cgi? Or something else?

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