Re:CDN for JavaScript libraries
by jlebar on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:40AM
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This a thousand times.
I'm not accusing these guys of being dishonest, but we know that the three-letter organizations do this sort of thing, both with and without the knowledge of web hosts.
It seems like these guys (and anyone else who has a similar service) shouldn't require people to trust them. Instead, they should allow CORS (it appears cdnjs does) and provide boilerplate code that verifies the script's sha256 before inserting it into the page.
I'm not accusing these guys of being dishonest, but we know that the three-letter organizations do this sort of thing, both with and without the knowledge of web hosts.
It seems like these guys (and anyone else who has a similar service) shouldn't require people to trust them. Instead, they should allow CORS (it appears cdnjs does) and provide boilerplate code that verifies the script's sha256 before inserting it into the page.