And Chrome has spent more than anyone on ensuring that its user experience is as sticky as it gets. Usability, speed, features, seamless cross-platform options, all are factors. If they really cared about privacy, they would just stop spying on billions of people.”Ĭhoosing a browser is a highly subjective matter. They care about protecting their surveillance business model. "More bugs fixed year over year is a good thing," Tabriz says, "bugs exist in every piece of software out there, so if you think less bug fixes equal more security, a lot of folks on my team would love to have a word."Īs my colleague at Forbes, Gordon Kelly, says: " don't let the numbers scare you off." MORE FROM FORBES FBI Seeks To Calm Hacking Fears Ahead Of 2022 U.S.“You don’t become a multi-billion-dollar company without grabbing as much data as you can then monetize,” Cyjax CISO Ian Thornton-Trump told me last month, just after (genuinely) privacy-first DuckDuckGo warned that “Google doesn’t care about protecting user privacy. With more than $35,000,000 paid out in bug bounties to 2640 bug hunters, it would be hard to argue that the system isn't working. Many vulnerabilities are found by those internal teams, others by hackers who are part of the Google Bug Hunters platform. Google has some truly amazing security folk, amongst the best in the business, it could be argued, and the fact that vulnerabilities are being found and fixed reinforces this belief. Check out my report, also published today, that looks at a video documentary series from Google providing insight on internal security teams there. I have to agree with the security princess, the whole argument is truly bizarre. Google has some of the best security people in the business Tabriz's argument was that a number of media reports were suggesting that a browser with more vulnerabilities than its competitors was, therefore, less secure, even when many of those competitors were built around the exact same chromium engine. The answer: not much." CVEs are the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures system by which vulnerabilities are referenced and rated for severity.
"Some reporters seem to, unfortunately, be confused about what CVE *counts* actually mean.
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