ChristianKl comments on A pair of free information security tools I wrote - LessWrong

17 Post author: Nanashi 11 April 2015 11:03PM

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Comment author: dxu 12 April 2015 10:47:39PM *  2 points [-]

Wouldn't this be circumvented by performing Step 5 followed immediately by Step 4 before running the script? (Of course, the level of inspection necessary to determine what's going on in the script may be high enough that you may as well write your own script by that point.)

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 April 2015 02:17:55PM 3 points [-]

The scenario that everyone runs Step 5 and Step 4 everytime they run the script is unrealistic.

Comment author: Nanashi 13 April 2015 03:23:11PM 5 points [-]

It wouldn't be every time you run the script; you would just need to vet it the first time. I expect that anyone using this for serious security purposes would just save the script locally. The point of this is that it's browser-based, not cloud-based. Saving an HTML + Javascript file with a (admittedly rudimentary) GUI is infinitely easier than downloading a command-line based program.