• thantik@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Looks like another good reason not to ever use Chrome – even on Mobile.

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      10 months ago

      They seemed to have demonstrated it on chrome and leveraged by the chrome browser but I don’t see why this couldn’t be exploited on any browser.

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        10 months ago

        Chromium is implied. Firefox isn’t based on that code base unlike most every other browser.

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          10 months ago

          It’s based on security hole in what I’m interpreting as a web API. You leverage a legitimatly logged in Google account on a malicious website and this web endpoint gives you keys to everything else