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The headline is very sensational. The actual research says that a malicious extension can do its malicious work by reusing part of the code of existing extensio
by JoachimSchipper 10y ago
The headline is very sensational. The actual research says that a malicious extension can do its malicious work by reusing part of the code of existing extensions, which may be less obvious than directly pwning the host.
The research isn't bad, but "here's a trick to hide (extension) malware using (the code of) NoScript" is very different from the most straightforward reading of "NoScript is vulnerable".
- andrewclunn 10y agoThis is yet another article from Ars that has the stench of paid content. Maybe conspiracy mongering, but it seems like they've done a lot of anti no script / ad blocker stuff lately. Misinformation and scare tactics aren't going v to make savvy users expose themselves to the tracking, invasive ads, and malicious code of the unfiltered web. Some less savvy Ars readers may be fooled though.
- angry-hacker 10y agoNoscript is considered to be harmful for very very long time. They show ads to Windows users that install Spyware.
- digi_owl 10y agoAre you confusing noscript and adblockplus?