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On Tuesday 04 Jul 2017 10:14:23 Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > hardening is intended |
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> > more for protection against local threats, like someone else |
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> > sitting in your seat, than anything coming in over the wires. |
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> With modern browsers and their complexity, you can expect that any |
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> website (or the one who has hacked it) can do anything which the |
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> user of that browser can do if he is sitting on your seat. |
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Have you seen any reports of that kind of thing? I tend to be sceptical of |
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unsubstantiated rumours. No doubt almost anything is possible with the |
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World's Worst Operating System, but I'd expect Linux to be less vulnerable. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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