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Web Browser Developers Work Together on Security

Posted by Zonk on from the happy-shiny-people-holding-hands dept.

JRiddell writes "Security developers for the four major browsers recently met together to discuss Web security. The meeting, hosted by Konqueror's George Staikos, looked at future plans to combat the security risks posed by phishing, ageing encryption ciphers and inconsistent SSL Certificate practise. IE 7 is one of the first browsers to implement some of the ideas discussed such as colour coding location bars and an anti-phishing database." From the article: "The first topic and the easiest to agree upon is the weakening state of current crypto standards. With the availability of bot nets and massively distributed computing, current encryption standards are showing their age. Prompted by Opera, we are moving towards the removal of SSLv2 from our browsers. IE will disable SSLv2 in version 7 and it has been completely removed in the KDE 4 source tree already."

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  1. Re:Confusion by shis-ka-bob · · Score: 4, Funny
    How can you not know what field his PhD is in? I can assure you that my kids know that mine is in Physics (and grandpa's is in Music). Pharmacology and Physics are quite seperate fields (although I guess that a French physicst is a physicien and all know that Pharmacologists and physicians work together.)

    My kids are sick and tired about hearing about my stories from grad school. There are only so many things you can do with liquid nitrogen to stave of the bordom of collecting data. They know all my rubber nail in 2x4, frozen cricket (they really do stop chirping if they are cold enough) & exploding pop bottle stories (a 2 liter plastic bottle with a few tens of milliliters of LN will completely vaporize if you put on the cap and wait for the LN to evaporate. It leaves a cloud of frozen water vapor too.) By now, you probably understand why they are sick of my stories.

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  2. Re:I guess thats correct by Crimsane · · Score: 5, Funny

    well at the very least I'm sure we can all agree that IE is definitely the best browser not on the market.

    From what I can read here its undoubtably the best browser I've never tried, and (god willing) it will stay that way for many years.

  3. Re:confusing color shemes by kryten_nl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, just like the terror alert system. Now, one question should I start being really worried at magenta or can I wait until crimson?

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  4. Re:Phishing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Phishing is just another way to get phood, right?