Re: Secure: yes, Though Features Missing; and Bugs

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:35:13 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> [...]
> The security of dillo is generally such that I can usually rest calmly
> when I browse with dillo.
> 
> And so I can recommend dillo to anybody who has problems with
> censorship, and when censorship of an oppressive regime is revealed,
> usually some kind of intrusion attempts, and/or attacks, are made
> against the one who managed to reveal it.

Agreed! It is incredibly valuable in this regard. It's minimalist
nature makes it far far more likely to be secure -- it presents a far
smaller "attack surface". (I think the lack of JavaScript support is a
feature, not a bug.)

> [...]
> I've been having censorship and related issues for really quite a
> number of years, By this current stage in my necessity-imposed
> research about it, I'm just about always traffic capturing when
> online, and you can find real and undeniable clickjacking and other
> intrusions (and learn about the Chinese style censorship and more;

Of course, the centralized state-controlled nature of the "normal
mainstream" internet makes this kind of censorship and hijacking
inevitable. If we realistically expect free speech we should be
migrating to censorship-proof darknets (like Tor or Freenet or I2P et
cetera) and perhaps decentralized hardware infrastructure like meshnets.

> [...]
> > Other then one thing. dillo, which I used, has a little problem with
> > cache, that can be easily circumvented, but the user needs to
> > remember to refresh the page, and I inadvertently lost a little
> > text... 

Yea that's happened to me a few times. Annoying. The input form will
use the originally filled field data, rather than the newer data,
unless the page is refreshed. Perhaps this is related to another
annoyance where, for example, after filling a form but incorrectly
guessing a captcha, there is no way to recover my original typed text.
(I've gotten into the habit of typing my posts in a separate text
editor to avoid this.)

> [...]
> Zagreb, Croatia

Cool city :).