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You're right, today. But as everything, stuff that starts as very advanced tools only at the disposal of big agencies, with time ends up being reachable for mor
by j1elo 6y ago
You're right, today. But as everything, stuff that starts as very advanced tools only at the disposal of big agencies, with time ends up being reachable for more mundane users, or in this case, criminals.
So, in a way, it's probably just a matter of time that the kind of silent hack depicted in the Amnesty article is used for attacks targeted towards more general victims. I don't look forward to the day that just by reading an unprotected HTTP site is enough to get my phone compromised as part of a widespread scamming effort from someone trying to get credit card details or banking stuff... but it will propbably end up coming if we don't move all together for a more secure WWW.
- superkuh 6y agoI know complaining about it won't change the future course of things but these are all problems coming from treating the browser like the OS and exposing more and more low level functionality. They aren't problems with security in HTTP versus HTTPS for a personal or small business static website.
- j1elo 6y agoTotally agree. The current situation with the complexity of browsers is crazy. Its implications are spoiling all around other technologies and causing all sorts of issues, like this one.