On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:15:02 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's not as far-fetched as you might think. > > One day I noticed, while in the middle of browsing, that the "camera > is on" LED had lit up, though not noticing *when* it came on. I > wasn't doing anything nefarious, so somewhere in the midst of a pile > of ordinary websites I'd browsed through, one of them was a nosey > parker. That's sobering. > The galling thing is that at no time was I asked to permit it to > happen, and my browser was set up so that it should. Yeah, the browser is really my main security risk. Firefox used to have plugins that let it be locked down pretty well, as well as be customized. They're moving to a new model for plugins in order to sandbox them, a model that is more restrictive for plugin actions, harder to develop for, and vets them more closely before allowing them into their download repository, and it has made many of those plugins obsolete. The latest nightly tells me that it is turning off many of my plugins because they are no longer compatible. Goodbye self-destructing-cookies, :-(. They still work in the Fedora version, but there is a major cutoff coming in August, I think. So, your experience could become more common. I think it is also a manifestation of the convenience versus security trade-off. Since most people surfing the web care more about convenience than security, browser market share is determined by that, and security plays second fiddle. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
