Schneier on Security

Bad .js • September 24, 2026 8:17 AM

What I’m stating below is what I basically realized after reading the linked article in Bruce’s topic above, so it’s an on-topic response as well as a rant if you will, of sorts.

javascript is being incorporated almost everywhere, and it angers me that it’s even being shoved down everyone’s throat even where it’s not needed at all. Many, very many sites, apps, systems, operating systems, files – could do/function just fine without the pest called .js which is worse than what we had with the nasty flashplayer a while ago.

On top of that, although I am trying as much as possibly permitted to utilize FOSS – I am still longing and hoping for that day to come, where the dependencies nightmare gets taken care of, so that one does not end up breaking a system while attempting to completely remove CUPS for example, and there are many more cases where one simply cannot remove unwanted software because it uses the same dependencies as some or bunch of other “critical” system components. A nightmare. Plus there’s more and more instances where many FOSS “players” are accepting “donations” or grants from Microsoft in order to quietly return the favor by incorporating some or many of MS “ideas” or concepts into their packages while developing new concepts or “improving” the old ones. It’s truly disgusting what money buys. These things are getting worse by the day. Can’t even trust the FOSS guys anymore.

Bad .js • September 24, 2026 1:28 PM

@Clive Robinson,
a question for you:

if I could convince you that by trying very hard, for decades, to protect as much as I can, on my end, the privacy of myself and my family while online (which is extremely hard, nearly impossible) by doing so I have drawn so much attention from my government that they have destroyed me and my family for just ASSUMING that the reason I’ve been doing so – “he must be hiding something” to the point where my entire family suffers this eavesdropping and being spied upon for many years now, to the point that the HICKS here in ID aren’t even allowing me to retain a lawyer, in a situation where I nearly got taken out but was convicted a felon because my government wanted this conviction so badly that they’ve gone as far as to cover up the attempt on my life, so that they could get the “GUILTY” verdict – no matter what, hence the WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE 24/7/365 as warrants aren’t needed for felons.

I hate my own country which prides itself for being a place where EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL and The Rule of Law are supposed to be a thing.
I HATE my country because I AM HUMILIATED TO THIS POINT OF HAVING TO BEG FOR JUSTICE. ONLY AFTER THE SAME PEOPLE IN MY GOVERNMENT HAVE COVERED UP THE ATTEMPT ON MY LIFE. I AM BEGGING THE SAME MONSTERS FOR JUSTICE.

I MUST BE EFFIN INSANE.

As a matter of fact, my shrink Thad Koontz told me that the most likely reason I’ve been diagnosed as DELUSIONAL was because I TRUSTED THE PUBLIC DEFENDER assigned to me, as well as BELIEVING IN THE EFFIN NON-EXISTENT “rule of law” AND EQUAL JUSTICE for all in “murky ‘murca” – because justice is only if you’re connected to obamas, bidens, trumps, and all others who will pardon you for a lot of money under the table and through the back channels – kind of money I DO NOT HAVE.

SCREW A COUNTRY WHERE I HAVE TO BEG FOR JUSTICE.

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I just want as many people as humanly possible to know how dangerous some humans are when REAL POWER OF PERSECUTION IS ENTRUSTED TO THEM.

This is NOT THE AMERICA I DREAMED OF as a European teenager over 40 years ago. I guess I should have been a female from Slovenia with a severely broken English – in which case, I would have made it – BIGLY!
Now, that kind of immigrant “workers” ID MAGA LOVES, I am sure of it.

Yes, the first post is mine, as is the second, and this one as well.