Which do you hire, developers or engineers? Nowadays, the most popular programming language is JavaScript, or, by its correct name, ECMAScript. Since "Eck-Ma-Script" is not a great marketing name except, perhaps, for a language for Ghostbusters EctoPlasm, it is not surprising that everyone still calls it JavaScript or just "JS". Whether this is a good thing or not, and whether JavaScript is the worst or best language invented, is not a topic I am too interested in.

The browser is the single most ubiquitous piece of software on the planet. Nearly every computing device has at least one one. Because of its ubiquity, and its use across multiple applications from open (Google "how much does a banana weigh") to private (browser-based email) to secure (office applications or banking), it is also a source of many risks. This article will dig a little deeper into issues of browser security and privacy.