[Cryptography] defaults, black boxes, APIs, and other engineering thoughts

[Paul Ferguson]

On 1/5/2014 4:55 PM, Albert Lunde wrote:

> On 1/5/2014 4:59 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> They looked to the promised land of HTML5 as a way to do Flash-like
>> stuff without a plug-in and without Flash. But just what reason does
>> anyone have to think that HTML5 implementations will be any better than
>> Flash?
> 
> HTML5 plus CSS is said to be Turing Complete
> 
> An example of the effect of creeping featurism... :-(
> 

Yes, but just an unfortunate combination of a bunch of other unfortunate
dangerous technologies.

It really *is* a dessert topping as well as a tasty floor wax.  :-)

- ferg


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Paul Ferguson
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