Fantastic!
Imaginary things are now real! Imaginary people now have all the rights of real people!
Another college freshman learns of the concept of "corporate personhood"...
Checking the form submission in script is like the sign outside a stadium that says, "don't bring knives into the stadium."
Checking the form submission on the server side is the burly guy with the metal detector at the entrance.
The latter can do the job all by himself. The former, by itself, can't be trusted - but the idea of it is to (hopefully) cut down on the other's workload a bit.
In the big picture, there's a distinct trade-off between security and usability.
That doesn't mean that, in the small picture, every security improvement comes at the cost of usability. But when you're talking big picture, to get the kind of security you're talking about, you have to rethink what it means to use a computer/OS/etc. Things you currently take for granted (like, as someone else said, plugging a USB device in) become "holes" that have to be closed.
It feels like the only reason half my co-workers talk to me is because I'm the only one with tits in the place... not because I'm smart, not because I can code with the best of them, not because I'm funny, or cheerful or anything else.
To be fair to your co-workers, they're really nice tits.
(bye, karma! I'll miss you!)
I'll be having children in a few years, and I'm not thrilled about bringing them into a world that is without Construx.
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