Browser Security
security browserBrowsers are a common vector for attack and source of privacy loss, mostly because we spend a lot of time in them. There are also structural problems: most modern web apps depend on the ability to run code in the browser and there is a plugin and extension architecture and ecosystem to contend with.
Think about how this works: you have one program (the browser) you use to access lots of different services that ideally you’d like to keep separated (email, social media, banking, dating apps, online learning, video). You run third-party plugins that can have access to every window. Your browser might have access to passwords for all of these things.
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