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This is very true. I just want to avoid accusing someone who may be completely unrelated. Until we know for sure if he even is the perpetrator I think we should assume innocence :) After all, it ...

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Great thoughts on what could happen! I've always been wary around bookmarklets, but I don't think many people realize how much they can do. I am concerned though since there isn't really a way to...

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That post message is just to trigger a editor save, it's how twitch.ka operates. Anything inside the program is incredibly safe, it's bookmarklets that have more permissions. Evan Lewis is aware o...

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A few thoughts: 1. Unminify the code with something like js prettifier 2. If there's a string of random characters it's instantly suspicious (probably storing base 64 encoded code) 3. Anything gra...

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They do, it's just that bookmarklets have complete control since they exist outside of KA's control. All KA can do is prevent people from putting new ones in their websites.

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There isn't really any reliable way though to detect javascript adding links. There's so many ways to do it, and it can be obfuscated using changing variables and eval.

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What about later adding links with JS? Wouldn't you need a DOM watcher? How do you keep something malicious from disabling a DOM watcher? Those are some of my concerns...

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Wow, that's pretty crazy. How could that even be possible? The programs are so carefully sandboxed and shouldn't be able to do anything close to that... I expect if KA is doing daily backups (pret...

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3. Which computing programing language is best for Artificial Intelligence industry?

I would strongly suggest Python, with possibly C++. Python has exploded in the ML community between Tensorflow, PyTorch, and Keras. Most of the underlying code is written in C, C++, or FORTRAN sinc...

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pa_u_los is correct, they limit API requests to google fonts, cdn.js, and khan academy's own servers (if I remember correctly). You're right that they used to not be able to block specific sites, b...