Ajax Security

Preface

Fire. The wheel. Electricity. All of these pale next to the monumental achievement that is Ajax. From the moment man first walked upright, he dreamed of, nay, lusted for the day that he would be able to make partial page refreshes in a Web application. Surely Jesse James Garrett was touched by the hand of God Himself the morning he stood in his shower and contemplated the word Ajax.

But like Cortès to the Aztecs, or the Star Wars prequels, what was at first received as a savior was later revealed to be an agent of ultimate destruction. As the staggering security vulnerabilities of Ajax reared their sinister heads, chaos erupted in the streets. Civilizations crumbled. Only two men could dare to confront the overwhelming horror of Ajax. ...