So you've probably read it everywhere by now: Google's Safebrowsing API got a case of the hiccups and started marking the entire Internet as harmful. Ryan Naraine was all over this like a monkey on a football this morning, and his post on Zero Day was the first report I saw of it.
As for me, though? I was sitting smug, not worrying too much. Others may have feared that their computer or browser had been compromised. I was pretty sure (okay, after a few test searches and hitting some of my own sites) that it wasn't a problem on my end, or a problem with the web content on most sites, either.
<fanboy><smug>
I'm running FireFox 3 with NoScript (and now RequestPolicy) on top of OpenBSD. What could I possibly browse that would harm my computer?
</smug></fanboy>
And yes, I am aware that there are still things out there that could probably do something bad somehow, but the odds are pretty slim.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Smugness in the face of malware
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12:25
Labels: InfoSec, news, web browser
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