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So they should - extensions are very popular with consumers, and are a notoriously effective means of spreading malware. There’s a few current stories on the to
by greggsy 3y ago
So they should - extensions are very popular with consumers, and are a notoriously effective means of spreading malware. There’s a few current stories on the topic, which is odd, because the problem has been a problem for nearly ten years now.
Google spend a lot of money developing extremely effective security research capabilities, while completely ignoring the dumpster fire that is their app and extension stores.
- robomartin 3y ago> while completely ignoring the dumpster fire that is their app and extension stores. This is one of the factors that keeps me away from trying Android phones. I don’t trust Google for anything other than search. And even that has become somewhat questionable over the years. I do trust Apple. Even though I own a couple of them, I don’t care for their computers. As far as phones though, I will not consider anything other than iPhone.
- zenapollo 3y agoSearch has become a rotting dumpster that will be fully ablaze soon enough. Works great as a calculator and spell checker though.
- londons_explore 3y agoThing is... There is pretty much nothing malicious one can do with localstorage.
- jxf 3y agoThis isn't accurate. There are any number of XSS attacks that can be performed, which then allow you to look at secrets or tokens in localStorage, for example.