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Chrome had a nasty one back in March, so your presumption seems correct. Really, the best way to protect yourself is to use an obscure OS, or a separate machin
by larrik 7y ago
Chrome had a nasty one back in March, so your presumption seems correct.
Really, the best way to protect yourself is to use an obscure OS, or a separate machine for web browsing. Sounds paranoid, but the web is THE main attack vector these days.
- mnw21cam 7y agoThere are disadvantages to using an obscure OS too, in that it is likely slower to get security fixes, and may have more security flaws.
- albertgoeswoof 7y agoThe only logical answer is to write your own OS The ultimate security by obscurity
- danieldk 7y agoYou could use something like NixOS, which has interpreters, libc, etc. in non-canonical paths. And you still have the protections of Linux and speedy security updates. Of course, this is security by obscurity, an attacker could adjust the malware for such cases.
- 2a96eb7d685a49c 7y agoYou could use Qubes OS[0] which will allow you to isolate different aspects of your computing into separate VMs easily. [0] https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/
- veeti 7y agoOr disable JavaScript, which is the cause of most RCE exploits.
- sireat 7y agoDo you mean whitelist JavasScript to known good sites? HN is about the only site that I frequent that is usable without JS. The progressive enhancement ship has sailed into abyss.