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You should use (vanilla) Webkit or Chromium if you want to be really safe. As I'm sure you know perfectly well, Chrome is closed source and you really don't kno
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
You should use (vanilla) Webkit or Chromium if you want to be really safe. As I'm sure you know perfectly well, Chrome is closed source and you really don't know what's going on inside it (Chromium, that is a different beast, is open source).
Chrome might be safer (than Safari, Firefox or IE) for this kind of malware, but I sure as hell wouldn't run a browser made by an company that makes money by collecting personal data for the benefit of advertisers if I wanted to be "safe". I see no reason to believe Microsoft, Apple or Google haven't put some spyware/backdoor in their browsers. But I really don't care about it, so I use Safari which is the best browser on Mac, IMO.
- Karunamon 14y agoI'm not going to touch the typical FOSS arguments because that is going to lead down a rabbit hole we've both been down about a thousand times I'm sure. That said, while Safari is a nice browser, it's horribly insecure. Just looking at Pwn2Own, it gets killed straight off every year, and those involved usually remark about how trivial it is.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoYou're right. I said I use it because I really don't care that much about security, and find it better suited to my needs. But if I did care about security, I certainly wouldn't run Chrome either (for the reasons stated); I'd use Webkit or Chromium, or plain old lynx like our friend Richard.
- sedev 14y agoMy impression is that Pwn2Own skews hard towards Safari for two reasons: the Air that's normally a prize is more desireable than the random cruddy Windows laptop, and Flash is a much softer security target than Safari itself, so that's usually what gets exploited.