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points by its-summertime 21 hours ago | 0 comments

I always felt bad about the whole site/browser cross integration that chrome and edge and others do. Now I feel really really really bad about it. Can almost see the marketing team's emails about what features to add, and the developers unwantingly writing the code not expecting such things to open so many holes

[–] xnickb 18 hours ago

I think they very well understand that this code was full of bugs but no one cared. Likely was assigned to some junior who was making an entry into the team/repos as a non-critical task.

And it's hard to judge them: I'd also rather focus on real features.

[–] imtringued 14 hours ago

What?

Special casing your domains to be assumed "secure" is exactly how you build vulnerabilities directly into your software.

It's an inevitable result.

Developers aren't aware because they assume a security model where the special casing is disabled.