Seamless Lessons & Security (commentary)

[Ivan Krstić]

On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:52 AM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> 1. It's clearly academic, as in the rest of the world this
> "launch-by-clicking-URL" behavior is about as prevalent as the common
> cold.

It "clearly" isn't, because part of the difficulty is that we're  
talking about code execution, which is what launch-by-click into any  
of the execution environments (Pippy, eToys, etc) amounts to. No  
mainstream browser supports launch-by-click for executables.

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