Re: Firefox 57 etc
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John Isige
Ah. Rhetoric. Like this.
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http://blog.trendmicro.com/mozilla-firefox-exploit-enlists-pcs-advanced-botnet/ And this: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/08/11/firefox-under-fire-anatomy-of-latest-0-day-attack/ The reason you're not hacked any more than other people is because Firefox updates for security, i.e. the very thing people are complaining about now because it's updating in a way that happens to mess with screen readers. It's true that, so far as I know, neither of these injection attacks are the kind of code injection screen readers do. That's because screen readers are local though and not using something like JavaScript, but that's about the only difference. And you should particularly note from the second link that the particular code injection attack being discussed there allows reading and writing of local files as well as uploading them. Have a credit card number written down somewhere for easy access? Get infected by that thing and it could very well be uploaded to a site for somebody else to try and use. My point is, injection attacks happen, they're bad, and this is another way to try and stop them. There's a real purpose to this change, whether or not anybody happens to like or agree with it. It's not just rhetoric, there are real examples of it, as I've just demonstrated. There's also a way for screen readers to deal with browsers that doesn't involve code injection, I believe this is how NVDA deals with Microsoft Edge because Edge doesn't allow code injection. That's also part of why everybody's still working on Edge accessibility, sure, that way doesn't materialize overnight, it has to be implemented and I'm sure issues have to be worked out with it, e.g. if a browser needs to expose certain things it doesn't currently. I get that the change Firefox is making isn't ideal for us, I'm just saying, there's a reason for it, and there are a lot of alternatives to using the new Firefox, including an older accessible version of Firefox if you don't feel like trying to change browsers and use Chrome or Edge until better accessibility for the new version of Firefox is worked out. There's no reason to assume that the sky is falling and that nothing will ever get better because clearly, Firefox is going down the road of hating blind people and ignoring them entirely and thus we're all crewed. On 11/4/2017 19:13, Ron Canazzi wrote:
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