Re:How to install silently malicious extensions for Firefox
by jerf on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @09:43AM
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I just carefully re-read the text, and it never quite claims this is a security issue with Firefox. (I did not watch the video, so if it's in there, I did not see it.) It just says a lot of various true things, and leaves the implication hanging in the reader's mind without addressing it. I agree that it would be improved if the author was more clear that this is just the way of things in our current user-based permission model and there isn't anything Firefox can do to truly stop this.
As a factual presentation, it is worth pointing out to interested people that Firefox's protection is only advisory, and not completely perfect.
As a factual presentation, it is worth pointing out to interested people that Firefox's protection is only advisory, and not completely perfect.