- From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:12:47 +0000 (GMT)
- To: JHTaylor@videodiscovery.com (Jim Taylor)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Jim Taylor wrote: -> -> 1) Privacy of information -> 2) Unscrupulous agents -> 3) Faulty agents -> 4) Unscrupulous HTML -> 5) Unscrupulous applets -> 6) Accessibility of stored information -> 7...) Anything else...? Yes. Novice users. What works well for computer-literate spec writers doesn't always work well for the majority of the people on the Web. Of course there are already security and confidentiality issues, but we should make sure as far as possible that any new spec doesn't make it easier to exploit those who just press every button on the screen. -- Stephen R. E. Turner Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge e-mail: sret1@cam.ac.uk WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/home.html
Received on Thursday, 29 February 1996 05:16:06 UTC