Problems like bad browser sandboxing meant that something in one tab could affect a session in a Cryptocat window. Patterson deals with security and cryptography on an architectural level in her research, and has reviewed and commented on Cryptocat. 'Browsers are huge, complex, multilayered beasts with lots of moving parts, and every last one of them implements at best some dialect of each of the many standards that a modern browser has to support,' said Meredith Patterson, a senior research scientist at Red Lambda.

The terrible state of browser security plagued Kobeissi in his work to build Cryptocat. But from a security point of view, the browser has always failed to provide for users - in no way worse than in cryptography.Įncrypting data to keep it away from prying eyes, be they hackers or nations has proved nearly impossible in the browser, which has relied on one standard to do everything: SSL, which is known to be broken. Google, Facebook and a infinite variety of other sites are pushing more functionality into the browser to increase the power of web apps, and the browser has become, for many people, the main interface of their computer. Customs and Border Protection spokesman declined to comment on Kobeissi's detentions at the border, saying he was prohibited from doing so by privacy laws, though he maintains that it plays nicely with foreigners. But you can't anymore, because Syrians are revolting.'Ī U.S. If you want to scare me, send me for torture in Syria. My friends were killed in 2008, my house was bombed and my neighborhood ruined. 'You don't scare me, you don't understand. 'Dear US Government, I'm from Lebanon,' Kobeissi said, laughing. If the searches, delays, and interrogations about Cryptocat are an intimidation tactic, they haven't worked. 'Why? Do bombs materialize? I don't understand,' he continued. trips through Charlotte, NC, 'In total I was searched either three or four times,' - in a single visit. Kobeissi said that in one of his last U.S. The young and cheerfully sarcastic Kobeissi is somewhat baffled by the border attention.

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