Almost Secure

One of the biggest sore points with Wayland is its focus stealing protection.

VStarcam is an important brand of cameras based on the PPPP protocol.

My first article on the PPPP protocol already said everything there was to say about PPPP “encryption”: Keys are static and usually trivial to extract from the app.

One important player in the PPPP protocol business is VStarcam.

My previous article on IoT “P2P” cameras couldn’t go into much detail on the PPPP protocol.

I’ve got my hands on an internet-connected camera and decided to take a closer look, having already read about security issues with similar cameras.

Two weeks ago I published an article on 63 malicious Chrome extensions.

As noted last week I consider it highly problematic that Google for a long time allowed extensions to run code they downloaded from some web server, an approach that Mozilla prohibited long before Google even introduced extensions to their browser.

Let’s make one thing clear first: I’m not singling out Google’s handling of problematic and malicious browser extensions because it is worse than Microsoft’s for example.

This is a guest post by a researcher who wants to remain anonymous.