[Dailydave] Aviator is more secure than Chrome: Deal with It.

[Thomas Quinlan]

Android has ad-blocking. Screenshot attached.


On 9 February 2015 18:30:47 Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:

> So the Aviator team (and WhiteHat in general) got a ton of crap about
> their patches to Chrome and how they are slower than Google is at
> implementing security fixes.
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> What people didn't point out is that WhiteHat is right: Chrome cannot
> provide a secure browser! Google is like a giant beast that sits by the
> side of the river Advertising and scoops money with a big fishnet out of
> it all day long. But that means that Google cannot do or bear anything
> that would at all stop the flow of that river.
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> Security is one of those things, in so much as some part of security is
> giving the user control over their browser. You'll notice the platform
> Google controls the most is the one that has the no ability to do ad
> blocking: Android.
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> But privacy is another one of the obvious casualties. As is transparency
> into what level of privacy you have.
>
> So let me put it this way: Right now Google has put a ton of money into
> hiring the best security experts money can buy. Eventually, like
> Microsoft has, they will stop doing this, and that crew will all go
> somewhere else. But the fundamental requirements Google has on their
> browser platform won't change, and it won't ever be "secure" by a sane
> person's definition, if that definition involves being able to filter
> content incoming or outgoing.
>
> -dave
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