rolling Firefox back to 2.x

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 08:59:26 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/2 Nik N <niknot at gmail.com>:
>> To make something (awesomebar, for instance) behave the way you
>> prefer, by hook and by crook, is one thing. Security is differnet: you
>> can not ascertain that something is secure a priory, you have no
>> option but to depend on the competence of the product planner, the
>> designer and the programmer.
>>
>> Injecting sqlite into the security chain of the browser demonstrates
>> incompetence.
>>
>
> Why are you so sure that sqlite is inherently insecure? Could you
> please link to a resource that demonstrates an insecurity in sqlite? I
> am not saying that you are wrong, I am saying that I am not familiar
> with security issues regarding sqlite. Do you trust xml? Plain text?
> Then why not sqlite? If there is an issue with sqlite then I would
> like to know about it.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen

I have not been tracking this tread much but it was my understanding
that he did not like that fact that it was hard to eraser sensitive
data stored in sqlite. In other words he surfs porn sites and does not
his wife to find out. (That is a joke btw way. I do not know the
poster at all.)


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Douglas E Knapp

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