Please allow me to apply the same logic as this article's author to the inquirer site: "The first flaw I noticed with theinquirer.net was that it left a user's connection vulnerable to hackers because web servers connect to your pc, imagine if terrorists exploited flaws in your browser to host a chat room, in which the RIAA found copyrighted material, can anyone say impending lawsuit?" I think there may be some gaping holes in the author's ability to think straight.

So THIS is how journalism works.. I always wondered </s . Your entire article is basically word-for-word ripped from another source. Top marks for investigative journalism, if "investigative" means copy-paste from an IM chat. Then again, what can we expect from such top shelf media as The Inquirer? ibcommentdelete.

You might want to check out www.tonido.com. similar concept and looks mature

...I'll take a Russian bride and a bottle of Viagra...to go!

Is it really a significant security concern? What's the difference between hacking the browser to run arbitary code and hacking a server they tag on?

And has anyone established whether this is a standard port 80 server or something that's of no use to any hacker?

Opera has bittorrent - that could be hacked!
Opera has an email and news client - that could be hacked!
Opera has RSS - that could be hacked!
Opera has Widgets - that could be hacked!

Or... they could make life easier. After all, Firefox extensions could be hacked but no one's moaning about the security concerns there.

Stuff like this moves everyone away from grotesque looking personal sites like facebook (white and dumb huge clicky things) or myspace which just a sewer and blaringly annoying.

In the past, I used to host my own webpages, host my own files, host everything myself that I could. Even games. Bandwidth never was a problem invest a tiny bit into a connection.

this is pleasing.

All this is cool, but does this mean all my friends also have to use Opera to use these features?

I'm sure Opera will work overtime to fix all the security holes. And I hope they do it fast. It's nice to see we have five competing web browsers nowadays. More choice means more innovation and distinction. Cheers to the little guy.