This is another problem with security advice! We all know people who work at these companies and so we’ve all got kid gloves on. Yes, Microsoft has fantastic security engineers, some of the best in the world. But Google Mail is much safer.
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I talk to Mozilla security engineers that I think the world of every day. But I’m not going to pretend it’s safe for campaign staffers to use Firefox instead of Chrome.
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Come on. In no way is Firefox “unsafe” for campaign staffers. Nobody is going to burn the mythical first Spectre exploit in the wild on some random campaign staffer.
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Dropping Thomas because he expressed disinterest in engaging with you but your insistence that it’d be a “mythical Spectre 0day” rather than any rando other FF 0day or n-day is precisely the attitude&informed-ness problem here.
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Replying to @hypatiadotca @pcwalton and
It’s less disinterest and more just not wanting to “teach the controversy” on Bob Lord’s TL.
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What I’m doing is not taking your feelings into account in this particular circumstance.
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Is your position that I don’t know what I’m talking about, despite having worked on browser security for years (approaching a decade—it’s been so long)?
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I don’t know what you do or don’t know about browser security. I just know that there’s a right recommendation and a wrong recommendation here, and I know which one it is.
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If you want to recommend Chrome, then fine. What I take issue with is saying that Firefox is unsafe for congressional staffers to use.
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Chances are overwhelmingly unlikely that any differences between security of Firefox and Chrome will make the difference between a congressional campaign being compromised and not. Browsers are so hardened these days that attackers will focus on other things.
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Dude don’t feed the trolls. The tech solidarity people are about as good at practical security as they were at picking winnable congressional candidates in 2018.
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Ehhh. That's not true. They're extremely talented security professionals, who I have a lot of respect for.
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