[liberationtech] Meet the 'cowboy' in charge of the NSA

[Al Billings]

Have fun tilting that windmill, Mr. Quixote.  

Like it or not, to fully use websites at this point, you generally need things like Javascript and CSS. The reason that most folks, even security folks like the ones I work with, don't run with NoScript on all the time is that it breaks the net as experienced. 

-- 
Al Billings
http://www.openbuddha.com
http://makehacklearn.org


On Monday, September 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Leif Ryge wrote:

> Ok, well as long as we're talking about that FP javascript overlay: if you saw
> it, that means you run JavaScript by default, which means you're vulnerable to
> a larger number of the arbitrary-code-execution bugs in your web browser (of
> which there are undoubtedly many more which are not yet fixed, given the
> frequency with which new ones are discovered [1,2]). In my opinion, if you're
> using Firefox, you should really be using NoScript. [3]


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