From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:05:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t8b7bpr.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180522041813.h7e2pxwkpazr6xc7@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 22 May 2018 06:18:13 +0200")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 04:07:10PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> 45.5.1? That's ancient, with a large number of known security flaws.
>> Why are you running such an old version?
>
> Ancient? November 2016 released. Ancient is my thinpad and ancient is
> me ;). Security matters, but my system is not *that* vulnerable. Note
> that I run the browser in a degraded mode (noscript, noflash etc.).
> That actually matters most.
November 2016 is ancient for a web browser, which has an extraordinarily
large attack surface. While it's true that disabling javascript helps,
there are known vulnerabilities in several other parts of the code.
Your system is vulnerable to attack. If you think otherwise, you are
mistaken.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-22 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-02 21:06 Packaging a free Firefox Clément Lassieur
2018-05-02 21:10 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-03 5:00 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03 5:06 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-03 5:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 14:29 ` next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox) Jack Hill
2018-05-03 14:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 20:23 ` Jack Hill
2018-05-04 3:36 ` Andy Patterson
2018-05-09 16:45 ` Pierre Neidhardt
[not found] ` <20180510020041.1e8b3956@uwaterloo.ca>
[not found] ` <87d0y3hije.fsf@gmail.com>
2018-05-10 14:04 ` ajpatter
2018-05-10 14:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-11 5:00 ` Andy Patterson
2018-05-19 19:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 9:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-24 14:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 15:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-05-24 16:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 20:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
[not found] ` <87bmdnhhu8.fsf@gmail.com>
2018-05-10 14:04 ` ajpatter
2018-05-03 6:06 ` Packaging a free Firefox Chris Marusich
2018-05-03 9:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-03 10:56 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2018-05-11 14:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-03 17:59 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-04 14:24 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-04 16:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-04 16:27 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-05 12:26 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-15 7:10 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-15 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-15 10:13 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-05-16 17:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-15 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-17 11:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-03 19:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-03 20:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-12 13:28 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-05-05 22:06 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-05-06 1:24 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 6:01 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-06 13:58 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 16:35 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-06 9:48 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-06 12:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-16 15:44 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-16 16:10 ` Tonton
2018-05-16 17:56 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-17 11:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-17 13:47 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-17 15:10 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-17 15:29 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-17 17:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-18 4:14 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-21 4:58 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-21 20:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-22 4:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-22 19:05 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2018-07-31 1:51 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-08-01 0:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-21 20:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-22 3:55 ` Alex Vong
2018-05-18 5:19 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-18 4:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-16 19:07 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-16 19:54 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-05-16 20:50 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-17 1:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-17 8:21 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-05-17 11:36 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2018-05-06 14:05 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-06 15:32 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-06 16:33 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-07 0:36 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-05-07 6:42 ` jah
2018-05-07 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-08 8:36 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-08 0:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-05-08 0:20 ` Mark H Weaver
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