News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by yafujifide on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:11PM (#8985640)
That has nothing to do with javascript-the-language, but rather the way the web works. Obviously even with https, javascript delivered by a web server has a vulnerability whereby the web server may be compromised, which is outside of the users control. Any javscript delivered by a web server should be executed with that understanding. i.e., delivering a wallet from a web server is probably not the right thing to do. Note that javascript can also be run in the form of a browser extension, server-side node, node-webkit, apache cordova, etc. Javascript-the-language is not intrinsically vulnerable to a compromised webserver.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:14PM (#8985658)
It's fair to say that JavaScript-the-language is not intrinsically vulnerable to this, but how else are you planning on delivering the JavaScript to clients? I may be misinterpreting your goals.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by yafujifide on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:29PM (#8985771)
Not in the form of a webapp. It would have been a browser extension and/or mobile.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:34PM (#8985805)
Thanks for clarifying.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by tptacek on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:54PM (#8985973)
This seems pretty much correct.
Re:Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project by jsprogrammer on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:46PM (#8987926)
A usable browser implementation of a wallet could be secured fairly well and if it gained any popularity would put pressure on browser makers to deliver better solutions.