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Oh haha this might be an attack itself: > The researchers developed a browser extension that can thwart such attacks, and it is available for Chrome and Firefo
by Izkata 3y ago
Oh haha this might be an attack itself:
> The researchers developed a browser extension that can thwart such attacks, and it is available for Chrome and Firefox. But they note that it may impact performance and isn’t available for all browsers.
And if you click through to the Firefox one...
> This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
- JBiserkov 3y agoThe target demographic selects itself ;-)
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoI am pretty sure that how it works is almost every Firefox add on that isn't in their recommended add ons has this warning.
- Izkata 3y agoAs far as I know they can get it reviewed without reaching "recommended" status. My point is these are security researchers that didn't bother getting it reviewed. Surely they'd go through the effort to get it reviewed if they really wanted to convince people it was safe, right? Seems to imply to me there's something that would get it removed if Mozilla did review it. Edit: I guess maybe reviewed and recommended are the same (I swear they were different at one point), but there is an email you can send to suggest extensions to reach this status.
- msla 3y agoAnd given the track record of security researchers, we must conclude that the browser extension is suspicious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29599553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29599553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611139