Mobile Code
ActiveX - Trust Issues
- The reliance of ActiveX on the digital signatures is troubling. You, as a user, must place complete trust in the author that:
- The code they write will not purposefully attack your machine, network, transmit your files, or perform other operations on your machine that you don’t wish.
- That the code does not accidentally (via a bug or a side effect) do any of the above operations.
- The code signers keep their keys safe and secure, and that nobody who leaves the company has the keys with which to sign code.
- This is not reasonable.