It's amazing how open and exploitable ads on the internet remain, being one of the biggest sources of malware since the dawn of the WWW.
All of the major problems - spam, HTTP/HTTPS security, speed of protocols - have at least been met with myriad solutions. That we're still relying on Flash, JS and Silverlight, etc. for serving ads is nonsensical. Sandboxed iframes are a nice bandage, but it isn't a solution, particularly because it doesn't cover the most vulnerable anyway.
Someone has to be interested in creating a more secure standard that applies some quality standardization as well as security sandboxing.
All of the major problems - spam, HTTP/HTTPS security, speed of protocols - have at least been met with myriad solutions. That we're still relying on Flash, JS and Silverlight, etc. for serving ads is nonsensical. Sandboxed iframes are a nice bandage, but it isn't a solution, particularly because it doesn't cover the most vulnerable anyway.
Someone has to be interested in creating a more secure standard that applies some quality standardization as well as security sandboxing.