Although IE8's security promise has already been marred to an extent -- it was
hacked the day before its official rollout -- it may escape the potentially
serious fallout from using JavaScript. IE8 was cracked at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada,
Wednesday by a hacker who identified himself only as "Nils." To be fair, the
first browser to go down at the hacking contest at CanSecWest was Apple's
Safari.