[Techtalk] why is Active X in web pages evil, but not Perl/PHP/Javascript?

[Kathryn Hogg]

Carla Schroder said:
> As the subject line says, why is Active X in web pages evil, but not
> Perl/PHP/Javascript? I have some vague notions about operating system
> architecture and being too friendly to remote code execution, but I would
> appreciate some precise notions from people who know.

Perl & PHP are not interpreted in the clients browser.  They are run on
the server and spit out a document of some sort.

Javascript does run in the browser but I have no idea if it allows you to
manipulate the host system (I doubt it though)

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