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Offline polonus

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Firefox authentication weakness
« on: August 16, 2006, 08:45:01 AM »
Hi malware fighters,

The biggest vulnerability has a name, i.m.o. it is called "as default".
Also in Firefox this hoilds true, as default authentication is weak, read here:
http://www.security.nnov.ru/Jdocument717.html

What can be done about this. How is for instance Opera handling this?

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