What the world is coming to?

So, now there is benign editing?

What does Yahoo Mail have against mocha? That’s what users of the company’s free e-mail service may be wondering if they try to send a message using the word "mocha" and discover that while in transit, "mocha" mysteriously changes to "espresso." To protect users from malicious code, Yahoo uses an automated filter to swap out a handful of words such as "mocha" that pertain to Web code known as JavaScript.

Egads, has past litigation led to this, a company seeking to "protect" us from some cracker or another?

Of course, I can't help but notice that "MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture," as the article points out. Then it neatly says how MS's HotMail files such tags without changing wording, and that Outlook can be set to filter out JavaScript entirely. (plug plug plug). Maybe this should be seen as classic Microsoft FUD, in that they want Java and Javascript to die, and long-live Active-X and its (MS proprietary) descendants.

But that's probably the paranoid in me.