Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr...
by hlandau on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:26AM
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>Letting users install and run unmaintained software is dangerous.
Which is... exactly what Windows and Linux still do, rightly.
>And they'll blame the browser for that, and rightfully so.
Not at all rightfully so. Moreover the supposed security gain from this is absurd. So a user can't accidentally install a malicious extension... but they can install malicious software. Which, being that it has full access to the system, could patch Firefox if it liked to disable the signing check.
I won't use a browser which implements restrictive code signing practices.
Which is... exactly what Windows and Linux still do, rightly.
>And they'll blame the browser for that, and rightfully so.
Not at all rightfully so. Moreover the supposed security gain from this is absurd. So a user can't accidentally install a malicious extension... but they can install malicious software. Which, being that it has full access to the system, could patch Firefox if it liked to disable the signing check.
I won't use a browser which implements restrictive code signing practices.