Web 2.0 security problems
One of the biggest reasons that I think that the so-called Web 2.0 applications are not going to replace local programs as rapidly as some are predicting is security or rather the lack thereof. PC World has an article that says that Web 2.0 security is seriously flawed. The article cites security expert Robert Hansen:
Hansen, and a group of like-minded white-hat researchers, believe that we’re only beginning to see what can go wrong when the security of the new generation of collaborative, Web 2.0 applications gets tested.
They believe that without a radical change to the way that browsers interact with the Web, the Web 2.0 security problem will only get worse.
From the start, desktops and Web servers were simply not designed to work together in a secure fashion. And as Web 2.0 pushes these machines to do more and more exciting things that lie far from their academic, electronic publishing roots, the strain is beginning to show, according to Hansen, who also maintains a Web site that serves as a discussion forum for the latest Web attacks.
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