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Don’t Blame the Browser
Melih Abdulhayoglu, 2009-02-06

There was a time when most diseases were fatal for humans. Intense study and research helped doctors manage diseases better, and subsequently even prevent them altogether.

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Economics says "blame the browser" 2009-02-08
Jim (1 replies)
So, your argument seems to be that the browser shouldn't be doing security; because the OS should be doing it.

That would be fine in an ideal world. However the OSs (all of them) are known to apply insufficient security, some more than others. Given that the browser is the primary interface to the dangerous outside world for most users, and that the browser codebase is magnitudes smaller than the OS, economically it makes sense to apply security to the browser.


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