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Re: [perpass] perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> Wed, 04 December 2013 17:24 UTC

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On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> wrote:

> On 12/04/2013 09:19 AM, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
>> All it takes is ONE unencrypted web request across a hostile network for that hostile network to be used to attack the browser.
> And that is one way in to the browser out of many.

Except that it is a primary way that the NSA says is OK, and has a huge attraction to nation states for system exploitation.  Why bother with watering hole attacks etc?

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