2. "closed binaries" was maybe a bad choice of words. I was referring to this post. Now even if you want to just recompile the client to run faster on your system (or run on a system that isn't officially supported), you won't be able to connect to most of the servers, because only the special official clients can.
4. True, but there's a nice collection of exploits for most browsers that can be put onto any website and work through things such as drive-by downloads. And, btw, what did you know about? ;)
4. True, but there's a nice collection of exploits for most browsers that can be put onto any website and work through things such as drive-by downloads. And, btw, what did you know about? ;)