Comment on why host your own files when someone else can do it for you
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year agoLets go a little beyond merelly hinting at the security implications:
- The files being hosted by that 3rd party are Javascript, which is code that runs on the browser.
- Barclays is a bank.
So people go to the website of a bank and their browser receives code from a 3rd party with whom the bank has no contract and who have nothing in place to obbey the level of security that is required by a banking site.
Consider the implications of getting the Barclays website to serve (from the point of view of a user) what can easilly be malware…
aes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fair, although explaining XSS to someone who doesn’t know what Javascript is sounds like information overload