I used to be optimistic about Brave, but I no longer consider it to be a good project. It has had some serious issues with security and the intent behind it is starting to seem nefarious. Monetizing other people's content was always sketchy and their DRM is going far beyond EME.
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What are the serious issues with security, how are they any different to every other software-at-scale project and how has unsatisfactorily dealt w them?
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The previous approach to the desktop browser was horrible and fraught with security issues. I only ever recommended the mobile Brave browser, but the desktop browser moved towards the same saner approach. In general, they should be improving security, not causing disasters.
I don't know why you're bringing up a specific employee. It clearly wasn't a security engineer who decided on a lot of the core infrastructure and tooling decisions. Take a look at how they organize the code today and try to tell me it's a sane, maintainable way to do things.
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Reflexively @'td CISO because it seems like a deep criticism of their security from a security professional.
I'm an interested user / supporter who wants to get more context for your criticisms.
Apologies for wording implying you were focused on an individual - my bad phrasing.
Oh you mean their Electron-based fork Muon on which earlier browser was based?
They seemed pretty open about pragmatic, suboptimal choice on that which they accelerated away from when they could, so not sure it's particularly damning bit of criticism for early alpha software?