Show Notes
Matt admits the prognosis in our earlier JavaScript episode was wrong, but the real subject here is deeper: security fatalism, blind trust, and the psychology of why smart people keep running code nobody can fully check. We dig into how we got here, why the prevailing behaviour is rational rather than reckless, and whether the modern browser offers a way out.
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