Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by om2 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:31PM
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Firefox is much less secure than other modern browsers. And Chrome is indeed very secure. But I think it's incorrect to say that it's "orders of magnitude" more secure than Safari. This hasn't been true since Safari introduced multiprocess and sandboxing. Safari and Edge are closer to Chrome in security level than they are to Firefox. That's why pwn2own doesn't even include Firefox in the competition any more but does include Safari and Edge.
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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by armitron on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:47PM
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Agreed on Safari/Edge but note that I didn't use the words "very secure" to describe Chrome in isolation.
How can something that gets publicly exploited year after year by _teenagers_ (1)(2) be called "very secure" ?
The grim reality is that we never had a browser than can be called even remotely secure. Major factors for that are the implementation languages (C++ and C) and the vast attack surface. It's disheartening to see this trend continue.
(1) http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pwn2own-browsers-2015,news-20680...
Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by pcwalton on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:53AM
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> Major factors for that are the implementation languages (C++ and C) and the vast attack surface. It's disheartening to see this trend continue.
You realize that there's only one browser which is starting to adopt alternative implementation languages, and it's not Chrome, right?