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Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by ufmace on Friday March 20, 2015 @03:02PM (#9239954)
On the slightly less dark side, we can probably assume that this class of exploits is so valuable that nobody would use it against a large number of people at once in an ordinary way, like sending out spam emails or comments with links to build a botnet. That would likely result in it getting noticed and patched quickly, for very little return on investment.

These types of exploits are probably only used by very well financed organizations in carefully targeted ways, so as to justify the huge cost of finding them and keep them unnoticed and unpatched for as long as possible. See the recent stories on the Equation group-associated malware. You and I are probably safe enough, but somebody like Edward Snowden better be very careful where he surfs.

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by tonyhb on Friday March 20, 2015 @04:27PM (#9240484)
I've never thought about surfing in a VM before, but it seems that if you're ultra paranoid that it would be best to do so.

Starting to think that running apps within a container is the right way to go.

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by alex_anglin on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:22PM (#9240764)
Or on a completely separate machine: Exploits have been found for visualization software. Of course, then you need to be concerned about the network and so on.

It's turtles all the way down.

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by ufmace on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:03PM (#9241510)
IMHO, the bigger concern is the exploits that the wider community hasn't found yet. How many nasty tricks were out there in Stuxnet for years before anybody noticed? Just given the scale of the stuff that's been found, I'm inclined to think that trying to out-secure organizations with that kind of resources is a losing battle.

You're better of not being somebody anyone would invest that kind of effort to hack. Or at least making your traffic not identifiable as somebody that your opponent would want to hack.

Last I checked, holders of large amounts of Bitcoin tend to avoid letting their identity be associated with their accounts easily, and that's probably why. I bet somebody would be willing to risk a few $100k exploits to get a few $million worth of BTC.

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by gpmcadam on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:17PM (#9240983)
That's why I have a separate machine which I use just for browsing the Web, which I keep disconnected from the Internet in a sealed steel box.

...

Unplugged from the mains.

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by pfraze on Friday March 20, 2015 @04:37PM (#9240534)
Qubes tries to build the OS that way.

https://www.qubes-os.org/

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by pcwalton on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:32PM (#9241773)
> Starting to think that running apps within a container is the right way to go.

If you're talking about something like Linux containers, note that the Chrome Pwn2Own exploit involved a sandbox escape via a kernel exploit. (Though seccomp-BPF mitigates this to some extent on Linux.)

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by slantedview on Friday March 20, 2015 @11:32PM (#9241771)
See Sandboxie