Re: Hacking Firefox

2009-05-05 Thread Gervase Markham
On 04/05/09 20:27, Andrews, Rick wrote: Are there any safeguards in place to prevent this hack from succeeding? Of course not. Code is code - you can make it do anything. It's just ones and zeroes. They could make the hacked version show your evil website while having the URL bar display

Re: Hacking Firefox

2009-05-05 Thread Jan Schejbal
Hi, Let's say I'm a hacker with access to a public kiosk, [...] I then install that version of Firefox on the kiosk. Simple: You should not be able to do that (if the kiosk is correctly configured). If the hacker can install arbitrary code, he could also install a rootkit with a keylogger or