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Google has the best security. But it is hard to market real security (as oposed to snake-oil), so maybe this acquisition will help.
by nolist_policy 2y ago
Google has the best security. But it is hard to market real security (as oposed to snake-oil), so maybe this acquisition will help.
- johnisgood 2y ago> Google has the best security. Care to elaborate?
- nolist_policy 2y agoGoogle was owned pretty hard in 2009 (Operation Aurora). Following that they put security front and center in a way that few other vendors do. You can read my praise of ChromeOS here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178525 To add a few, Chrome was the first browser to introduce process isolation: Every browser tab, every site (second-level domain) and every iframe runs in its own sandboxed process. With that it's the only end-user software (alongside the other browsers) that actually is secure against Spectre and Meltdown. Operating systems only protect against Specre/Meltdown leaks between processes. Google invented Certificate Transparency and Chrome enforces CT since years. Firefox added CT enforcement only a few days ago. CT solves the following: For example, if a rouge Chinese Certificate Authority decides to issue a cert for google.com to the Chinese government for Man-in-the-Middle attacks, CT blows their coverand makes it known to everyone that the CA issued a fraudlent cert.