SIN 18THE SINS OF MOBILE CODE
OVERVIEW OF THE SIN
We realize that the title of this sin seems both broad and alarming, and we really don’t mean it to be that way, but mobile code offers many opportunities to mess up royally. Before we explain some of the possible gaffs, it’s important to define “mobile code.”
Mobile code is code that is downloaded and executed on a user’s computer, sometimes with little or no user consent; examples of mobile code include
Code embedded in a document; such as a Microsoft Word macro written in VBScript, an Adobe Acrobat PDF file customized with JavaScript, or an OpenOffice document using OOBasic.
A web page rendered ...
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