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> Then pwn2own decided not to include Firefox in another year hacks because Firefox made no improvements at all in previous 2 years. Uh, [citation needed]? Fi
by IainIreland 5y ago
> Then pwn2own decided not to include Firefox in another year hacks because Firefox made no improvements at all in previous 2 years.
Uh, [citation needed]?
Firefox was a valid target in Pwn2Own 2021: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/1/25/announcing-pwn2own-vancouver-2021#browser https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/1/25/announcing-...
Nobody attacked Firefox successfully, but that's hardly a point against it. I don't know what "made no improvements at all in previous 2 years is supposed to mean", either, since we had just released a major overhaul of the optimizing compiler a few months before Pwn2Own: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performance-in-firefox-83/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performan....
- ksherlock 5y ago2016. > One change in the 2016 event is that the Mozilla Firefox Web browser is no longer part of the contest. > “We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year,” Gorenc said. https://www.eweek.com/security/pwn2own-hacking-contest-returns-as-joint-hpe-trend-micro-effort/ https://www.eweek.com/security/pwn2own-hacking-contest-retur...
- agilob 5y ago>Uh, [citation needed]? Literally provided citation in my comment above.