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Agreed, there are reasons why we do certain things a certain way. But in the age of ransomware and endless cyberwars and nation state spoofing maybe the idea th
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
Agreed, there are reasons why we do certain things a certain way. But in the age of ransomware and endless cyberwars and nation state spoofing maybe the idea that browsers and other internet facing applications should be barely-shippable shit code is antiquated.
- eremeevp 10y agoYou can't protect everything, but I'm sure they have a secure browser at NSA )
- nickpsecurity 10y agoNSA just uses isolation approach in air gaps or hypervisors like these: The high-assurance community in academia and commercial sectors keep building secure browsers, though. One, OP browser, was inspiration for Chrome security model. They severely weakened it for performance. IBOS is probably most interesting. There's links at the comment below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9969961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9969961 Quark kernel is one that's not in that comment for some reason: http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/ http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI just realized I forgot the link with their hypervisors. It doesn't matter because most of them suck. You're better off not seeing it. :)