full-disclosure - Re: Web browsers

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Message-ID: <20041020101123.M52578@dekadens.coredump.cx>
From: lcamtuf at ghettot.org (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: Re: Web browsers - a mini-farce

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Georgi Guninski wrote:

> just out of curiousity, do you use internet exploder for browsing ?

Hell no.

First, it has a good number of higher-level design flaws that make it
fairly vulnerablt to various privilege escalation / zone bypass attacks.
Second, it is far too popular, making it practical to write malware that
targets it; it is rather pointless to "phish" using a lynx address
obfuscation vulnerability ;-)

Third, I generally do not use Windows.

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