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Aviator is more secure than Chrome: Deal with It.
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:30:51 -0500
So the Aviator team (and WhiteHat in general) got a ton of crap about their patches to Chrome and how they are slower than Google is at implementing security fixes. What people didn't point out is that WhiteHat is right: Chrome cannot provide a secure browser! Google is like a giant beast that sits by the side of the river Advertising and scoops money with a big fishnet out of it all day long. But that means that Google cannot do or bear anything that would at all stop the flow of that river. Security is one of those things, in so much as some part of security is giving the user control over their browser. You'll notice the platform Google controls the most is the one that has the no ability to do ad blocking: Android. But privacy is another one of the obvious casualties. As is transparency into what level of privacy you have. So let me put it this way: Right now Google has put a ton of money into hiring the best security experts money can buy. Eventually, like Microsoft has, they will stop doing this, and that crew will all go somewhere else. But the fundamental requirements Google has on their browser platform won't change, and it won't ever be "secure" by a sane person's definition, if that definition involves being able to filter content incoming or outgoing. -dave
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- Aviator is more secure than Chrome: Deal with It. Dave Aitel (Feb 09)
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