Re:Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access
by mihaaly on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:06AM
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I wonder if the argument is here then to make the browsers as secure as a desktop app by giving them all the possibilities of a desktop app?
Giving web and desktop apps the same access - temporarily or permanently alike, no difference - to local data and system will make both the same secure. Or the web one being even less secure as that is inherently remote centered while the desktop could be restricted to local.
Ultimately nothing is secure with a non-paranoic user nowadays so idealisticly no reason not allowing the same access to a web app. But oh there is! Knowing that one does not need to worry at least about a surely web app digging around in the local system above desktop apps that may or may not send local data somewhere is better. Should mitigate the risks not aggravate!
Btw. desktop apps has no unpermissioned access to everything on your system.
Giving web and desktop apps the same access - temporarily or permanently alike, no difference - to local data and system will make both the same secure. Or the web one being even less secure as that is inherently remote centered while the desktop could be restricted to local.
Ultimately nothing is secure with a non-paranoic user nowadays so idealisticly no reason not allowing the same access to a web app. But oh there is! Knowing that one does not need to worry at least about a surely web app digging around in the local system above desktop apps that may or may not send local data somewhere is better. Should mitigate the risks not aggravate!
Btw. desktop apps has no unpermissioned access to everything on your system.