Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Security Flaws

Re:Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Secu... by londons_explore on Sunday May 22, 2022 @05:07PM (#31472806)

The author doesn't know that Firefox on iOS cannot be affected due to the design of browsers of iOS (they are not allowed to use internal JavaScript or web rendering engines).

That brings into question the rest of the analysis in the article.

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Re:Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Secu... by joe_guy on Sunday May 22, 2022 @07:33PM (#31473867)

They also seem to believe the speed of an exploit is relevant enough to put it in the headline and repeat it several times in th article.

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Re:Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Secu... by samhw on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:22PM (#31474167)

Also, eight seconds sounds like a terrifically long time for it to take effect. That's tens of billions of CPU cycles, billions of arithmetic instructions, millions of disk seeks, a hundred or so page loads, a dozen "knock knock" jokes in call-and-response between London and Sydney. How non-technical does one have to be to think "eight seconds" is fast in computer time?!

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Re:Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Secu... by londons_explore on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:47AM (#31476009)

To me, 8 seconds implies 'it probably needs loads of heap grooming, and even then is probably only 90% reliable'

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