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> Chrome has a rather sophisticated mechanism for detecting MITM attacks Which obviously didn't work here, as Chrome was one of the most affected targets. Fir
by josteink 12y ago
> Chrome has a rather sophisticated mechanism for detecting MITM attacks
Which obviously didn't work here, as Chrome was one of the most affected targets.
Firefox on the other hand, was more or less absent altogether. I know which browser I will trust.
- mike_hearn 12y agoSuperfish is not a man in the middle, by definition. It's running on your local computer. That's not the middle. That's the start. Consider that Superfish could have just done binary patching on the browser binaries instead of fiddling the local SSL configuration ... it's put there by the computer manufacturer so they can do anything they like.
- wampus 12y agoIt's called a "man in the middle" because it intercepts connections between the source and destination. The physical location is irrelevant.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoSuperfish will infect Fx also, it's just that Lenovo didn't pre-install Fx and the installer only runs once.
- josteink 12y agoIf you install superfish and then chrome, you will be affected. If you install superfish, then Firefox, you won't. Thus Firefox is the more secure browser.