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Madaidan's Insecurities

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Below lies a list of analyses regarding security and privacy-focused topics. The security assessments make no attempt at evaluating security based on the number of former vulnerabilities in a particular program. Instead, criteria involve the software's overall security posture and ease of exploitation. Primarily, the…

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Firefox and Chromium

Firefox is sometimes recommended as a supposedly more secure browser because of its parent company's privacy practices. This article explains why this notion is not true and enumerates a number of security weaknesses in Firefox's security model when compared to Chromium. In particular, it covers the less granular…