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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:33:31
Message-Id: slrnolrmd2.i17.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation. by Peter Humphrey
1 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 04 Jul 2017 10:14:23 Martin Vaeth wrote:
3 >>
4 >> With modern browsers and their complexity, you can expect that any
5 >> website (or the one who has hacked it) can do anything which the
6 >> user of that browser can do if he is sitting on your seat.
7 >
8 > Have you seen any reports of that kind of thing?
9
10 Are you joking? Every CVE of the browser (or of any of its dependencies)
11 which eventually allows an "execution of arbitrary code" exploit is
12 such an example.
13
14 > but I'd expect Linux to be less vulnerable.
15
16 This has nothing to do with linux. It is the complexity of the
17 browser which is the problem.

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