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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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