“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser”

Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by eadmund on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:16AM (#15124403)

At some point people are going to have to admit that granting execute access to remote agents in order to read content is insanely insecure.

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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by delinka on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:18AM (#15124418)

Surely you mean "granting native execute access"? JavaScript executes in a browser. Sure, it's sandboxed, but it's still executed.

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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by sp332 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:32AM (#15124534)

Nope. I don't want some random code from the Internet tying up resources on my computer. Even if it doesn't have access to much of my data. That's the whole problem with the bitcoin mining - sure it's sandboxed but it's still bad.

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Re:“An on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser” by whipoodle on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:26AM (#15124475)

I think that's kind of the whole problem GP is alluding to

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