On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<[email protected]>
wrote:
Persistent workers are even more of a security risk, since they are
supposed
to persist even after the browser has been restarted, or after the
system
has been rebooted. Persistent workers should be renamed to "BotNet
Construction Kit".
Surely this proposal also would have the pages run even after the
browser has been restarted, or the system rebooted? It was suggested
that ideally they'd continue running even when the browser has been
shut down!
If that's the suggestion, then they are just as dangerous as
persistent workers, or maybe more. But I think the point is, I don't
think it's generally accepted that persistent workers are safe, so
there's no argument by analogy that persistent background pages would
be safe.
Regards,
Maciej
