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

Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> Wed, 04 December 2013 17:22 UTC

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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.

    Thanks

    Bruce

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