Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser

'Firefox is the only browser that received top marks in a recent audit
carried out by Germany's cyber-security agency -- the German Federal
Office for Information Security (or the Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in
der Informationstechnik -- BSI). The BSI tested Mozilla Firefox 68
(ESR), Google Chrome 76, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft
Edge 44. The tests did not include other browsers like Safari, Brave,
Opera, or Vivaldi. The audit was carried out using rules detailed in a
guideline for "modern secure browsers" that the BSI published last
month, in September 2019. The BSI normally uses this guide to advise
government agencies and companies from the private sector on what
browsers are safe to use. The article includes a list of all the
minimum requirements required for the BSI to consider a browser
"secure." It also lists the areas where the other browsers failed,
such as: Lack of support for a master password mechanism (Chrome, IE,
Edge); No built-in update mechanism (IE), and No option to block
telemetry collection (Chrome, IE, Edge)'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/10/17/2136219

Cheers, Pete
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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