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Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code



* Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> [150902 14:15]:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:14:31 -0400 Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:
> > It is presumed that upstream already has what it considers "source";
> > in the case of this thread, that is minified JS.
> 
> Actually, not. Source, for upstream of JQuery at least, is a set of
> directives to include files into a non-minified jquery.js which is then
> minified as part of the build in Debian.

I stand corrected.

> There are three players:
[large snip]
> It is a complete mess - with the embedding upstreams lost in the middle
> with no idea of what they can do to avoid getting in the way.

I completely agree.

...Marvin


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