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

[email protected] Thu, 2 Apr 2015 22:16:20 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID	<20150402201620.GC20186@g0n>
( I really got this message from Dennis, not from dillo, aah, what can
you when the provider is bad... )

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 10:51:13AM -0400, Dennis New wrote:
> 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.)
Yeah, except you need it often... (not everybody is FOSS oriented)...
> 
> > [...]
> > 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.
I wish I was there already! Late adopter. What I have achieved: only
through terribly extensive effort and time. 
> > [...]
> > > 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 :).
I see on http://dennisn.mooo.com/wiki/ you like some of our music.
"Hladno pivo" are capable musicians, but ideologically I feel
differently... Can't delve on this though.

And I promised the other bug or similar that it were, of dillo. Not
immediately. I'm slow. Pls. allow time.

Cheers dear people!

-- 
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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