Live data from Hacker News

Serious Chrome zero-day

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

21–30 of 377 posts

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#21

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

I used it because it was fast, now I use Brave and it is fast and private.

How do you know if someone uses Brave?

...

They'll tell you!

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#22

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

I use it because my clients use it, and their customers use it, which means my client's website has to look and work perfectly in it. I also use Firefox on my second monitor, because it's my preferred browser.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#23

This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs. Also, this: > A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security. Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

I do in team chat. It's obvious enough in context, as in "hey can you deploy, I just patched this urgent vuln: [url to ticket]"

You won't see me using it in an email or other long form writing though.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used it because it was fast, now I use Brave and it is fast and private.

How do you know if someone uses Brave? ... They'll tell you!

Actually, you can tell because of the referrer http headers brave injects for websites that pay brave

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#26
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know if someone uses Brave? ... They'll tell you!

Actually, you can tell because of the referrer http headers brave injects for websites that pay brave

What do you mean by websites that pay Brave? Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? -- That's a serious question btw.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#27

Honest question - why do people use Chrome? It’s from an arguably as-evil company as Facebook. Alternatives exist. What’s the draw?

A lot of people have Google / Gmail accounts, with which it integrates very well. Also, most people don't care about ads/tracking, as evidenced by the massive number of people who still have Facebook accounts. It is a leader in web standards and features (e.g. PWAs).

In my industry, it is a very secure solution (despite the vulnerability disclosed here), so it gets chosen for that reason.

I personally prefer Vivaldi (which uses Chromium), but I do choose Chrome over Firefox. I'm not sure if it's the UI or what, but it has never really stuck for me. The thing that would get me to move away from Chrome is if they broke the API for ad blockers.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#28

This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs. Also, this: > A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security. Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

I do in team chat. It's obvious enough in context, as in "hey can you deploy, I just patched this urgent vuln: [url to ticket]" You won't see me using it in an email or other long form writing though.

Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#29

This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs. Also, this: > A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security. Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.

Re: Serious Chrome zero-day

#30

This blog post is so watered down and manages to digress at every possible point that it is almost impossible to read. The only useful part of the text are the URLs. Also, this: > A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security. Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation? More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.

It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.
Post reply on HN