NTCreation

is nonexistent.

While there has been a striking lack of actual evidence that ActiveX is unsafe, there has been no shortage of baseless assertions and cheap shots against it. My favorite was the “Internet Exploder” incident in which Sun actually paid someone to write a malicious ActiveX control. The test system brought up all the warning dialogs about the program that you usually get and the Sun employee actually had the nerve to keep whacking on the enter key quickly so they would close as quickly as possible and didn’t mention that there were any such warnings. Meanwhile, they also didn’t mention that a signed Java applet could also perform dangerous privileged operations and would provide similar warnings. Most ActiveX criticism is simply uninformed, but this example was hypocritical and dishonest.

                                                                                                                                                   - Larry Seltzer, eWeek

Just wanted to put something up while I had the chance. Don’t worry, there will be an actual article by Monday night.

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