Apple accepts Javascript in EPUB ebooks in iBookstore

Post by ComputerGuru » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 6:05 PM UTC

rakkhi wrote: post #25

rm-rf wrote: post #22

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How is this different than Adobe Reader, where the ability to execute code within a document reading application has resulted in world wide exploits of operating systems? If my document reader can execute any code in any language, then any document that I read has the potential to execute malicious code on my computer, and I now have an exploit vector that I need to consider when downloading documents & opening e-mai…

Chrome one has stood up the best thus far

Post by tobylane » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC

rm-rf wrote: post #22

tobylane wrote: post #12

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Javascript is pretty well jailed up, you can't communicate with local and remote files in the same javascript file.

How is this different than Adobe Reader, where the ability to execute code within a document reading application has resulted in world wide exploits of operating systems? If my document reader can execute any code in any language, then any document that I read has the potential to execute malicious code on my computer, and I now have an exploit vector that I need to consider when downloading documents & opening e-mai…