A discussion with Jeremiah Grossman, Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace, and George Neville-Neil
It seems every day we learn of some new security breach. It’s all there for the taking on the Internet—more and more sensitive data every second. As for privacy, we Facebook, we Google, we bank online, we shop online, we invest online… we put it all out there. And just how well protected is all that personally identifiable information? Not very.
The browser is our most important connection to the Web, and our first line of defense. But have the browser vendors kept up their end of the bargain in protecting users? They claim to have done so in various ways, but many of those claims are thin. From SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to the Do Not Track initiative to browser add-ons to HTML5, attempts to beef up security and privacy safeguards have fallen well short.
Browser Security Case Study: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
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Java Security Architecture Revisited