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"attack widely known and observed in the wild" is usually not the bar by which computer security systems are measured.
by the8472 8y ago
"attack widely known and observed in the wild" is usually not the bar by which computer security systems are measured.
- javagram 8y agoMozilla’s thesis is that attackers wouldn’t be willing to go to this next step (actually uninstalling Firefox and replacing it with a different binary) because antivirus vendors would start treating them like malware. In other words, it’s not a purely technical solution, it’s a political solution, and the success or failure of such a political solution can only be judged by real world results rather than technical possibility.