Brian Hook on the ActiveX Experience

Obiwan Kenobi writes "Brian Hook of id software fame got around to developing on ActiveX and found some minor grievances, particularly in the security department. To quote: "I've been doing some ActiveX coding on the side for a couple days, stuff I'm not familiar with, and I'm just flat out _appalled_ at how bad that entire API and design is. I can make an OCX that basically formats your hard drive, stick it on a Web page with a tag, and if your security settings are set low enough, you'll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page.""

Comments

Gee, that's news...

[Assmasher]

I wonder if anybody knew that before... LOL.

Do it

[savagedome]

I can make an OCX that basically formats your hard drive, stick it on a Web page with a tag, and if your security settings are set low enough, you'll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page

Please. DO IT NOW. Thanks.

Re:Do it

[mordors9]

But does it run on Linux ;-)

Re:Do it

[CactusInvasion]

Aha! Finally a reason for me to have been running BeOS for all these years!

So...

[Aztek]

what rock has he been under all these years?

Easy Formatting

[kdark1701]

Well, that would eliminate the problem of people not knowing how to format their hard drive

First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Firt po...

Formatting C: 5% Complete

Oh, no!

[Jacco de Leeuw]

... and if your security settings are set low enough, you'll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page.

I hope virus writers won't find out about this!

Hey, I bet he could make money

[Anonymous Coward]

Setup www.formatmyharddrive.com. Online hard drive formatting, done in minutes, only $5.

Re:Hey, I bet he could make money

[headkase]

Just make sure their credit card details are sent before their hard drive is formatted...
:)

Re:ActiveX Experience

[CactusInvasion]

Nasty? But I got all this stuff installed on my hard drive without having to worry about it. Programs like Gator are so nice! I mean, they pop up without me even having to find them. And Norton says this one programs says it's logging my keystrokes. It's so nice to have a typing analyst installed automatically. I wonder if it'll tell me which words I misspell the most.

Re:More Ammo

[Mysticalfruit]

If your going todo that, you might as well go full monte and create an activeX control that would format the harddrive and install linux... then it would be something useful...

Other Big News Items:

[PopeAlien]

- Sco claims ownership of linux source code!
- Apple has released new products!
- DVD CSS encryption has been broken!
- RIAA threatened by P2P networks!
- Darth Vader is Lukes Father!
- BSD is dying!

Its good to keep up to date on all the latest news.

Re:You know...

[The Cisco Kid]

If you are using IE, I'd be scared to follow any link if I were you.

Re:Site visit results in disk reformat. Sad thing

[allanj]

Like the man said about tsunami alerts in the United States: "There's still a large segment of the population that would go get their kids out of school so they could drive to the beach and watch the big waves..."

Those who still do not believe in natural selection raise their hands. No-one? Didn't think so.

Grammar check, please!

[Just Some Guy]

i mean, any operating system is vulnerable to an exploit if it's security infrastructure is sufficiently loose.

It's lose, darnit, lose lose LOSE !

Wait a minute, you actually meant to say "loose", didn't you?

Between using "lose/loose" correctly and not writing "This begs the questions:", I'm prompted to ask: what are you doing on Slashdot? We don't take decent grammar lightly around here, bucko.