Cartoon: When Firefox Add-ons Attack
Written by Rob Cottingham / February 1, 2009 6:58 PM
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It dawned on me this week: I'm cautious as hell about my Twitter credentials. Paranoid about my Facebook activity stream... And yet all you have to do is tell me there's an alpha of a Firefox add-on that will let me track my neighbors' toast consumption habits or plan birthday parties for the guppies at my kid's daycare, and I'm installing it without a second thought.
Do we all have our personal blind spots when it comes to security?
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For some weird reason, I'm actually really liberal with my Twitter credentials. The password is sF*v(lr....
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I totally took that comic the wrong way at first glance. The alignment with the chick's pelvis just isn't right.
Interestingly enough, /. is reporting that MS has a new FF .Net extension, one that's realy hard to remove.
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The reason the queue for getting approved onto addons.mozilla.org is a mile long is that they do look at every addon (and addon update) to see that they're ok (and they need more editors), so addons downloaded from there can be assumed safe to some extent, particularly if they have a track record. On the other hand, pays to read the privacy policy and EULA if there is one. Anything downloaded from other sites - well, caveat utilitor.
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For some weird reason, I'm actually really liberal with my Twitter credentials.
And then there's the good ol' unpluggable security hole that XKCD identifies: http://xkcd.com/538/