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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It’s less disinterest and more just not wanting to “teach the controversy” on Bob Lord’s TL.
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You’re being unbelievably condescending here.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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That doesn’t mean their recommendations are practical or even strictly correct.
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