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Opera Presto Source Code Leaks Online (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: An unknown third-party has leaked the source code of the old Opera Presto browser engine on GitHub, and later on Bitbucket, two services for hosting and sharing source code online. Opera Presto is the layout engine at the heart of the old Opera browser. Opera Software used Presto between Opera 7 and Opera 14 and replaced Presto with Blink, Chrome's layout engine, in Opera 15, released in May 2013. Despite its removal from the company's main product, Opera engineers continued to use Opera Presto for the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. According to timestamps, the Opera Presto source code was first uploaded on GitHub but was taken down last Friday, on January 13, after Opera's lawyers filed a DMCA request.
If you set the "data savings" option down from extreme to high in the settings menu, the scanner at ssllabs.com will report Webkit, not Presto. The Webkit version will be whatever is included on your device (Webcore). If you are running KitKat or Jellybean, you will see lots and lots of security problems with your Webcore, since they date from the end of the XP era, and haven't been updated since.
I believe that Presto would be installed at Opera's corporate systems, and it would feed a compressed stream to the Webkit used by Opera Mini.
Opera Mini could not be so small and include both a complete rendering engine and links to Webcore. They essentially cheated.
Ironically enough, it could be more true since Russians tend towards Opera for some weird reason.
It has decent language support, and is not American.
Russians have (possibly for good reasons) as much distrust of American companies as Americans have of Russian companies.
Since they have mostly given up on Presto and no longer develop it, why not open source it? I dont get why they would freak out over a source code leak, since they no longer support or provide a product based on it. It makes no sense
For Americans to distrust Russian companies Russia would actually need to have companies that are even worth distrusting. The state of California has a higher GDP than Russia. Take nuclear weapons off the table and the California National Guard alone can project more global military power than Russia. Keeping in mind that California is home to the port facilities for air craft carriers and their supporting battle group as well as nuclear submarines. The hardest part of a conflict between Russia and the State of California would be keeping the citizens and students living in Berkley from automatically surrendering.
You might want to learn some history, boyo.
It's scary that your post gets modded up. The other poster was correct. The US luckily averted another Stalingrad. Although a bunch of snowflakes being sent to the Russian Front would indeed be LOL worthy. No safe spaces there!