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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by rossjudson on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:01PM (#6142633)
Seems like ad networks should be liable for the javascript they serve up. There has to be an incentive for them to check it out, and they should strongly prefer that their clients NOT have any javascript.
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Re:Buy An Ad, Own a Browser Botnet by mike-cardwell on Thursday August 01, 2013 @03:04PM (#6142665)
Seems like site owners should be liable for the arbitrary third party content they allow ad networks to inject into their pages.

If you don't want your sites security to depend on a third party, don't allow that third party to run code on it.

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