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Comment by SahAssar

16 hours ago

WebKit is not open source?

Sure there are closed source parts of Safari, but I'd guess at least 90% of safari attack surface is in WebKit and it's parts.

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Normal_gaussian  16 hours ago

In many cases, the difference between a bug and an attack vector lies in the closed source areas.

This is going to be the case automating attack detection against most programs where a portion is obscured.

  • rs_rs_rs_rs_rs  15 hours ago

    >In many cases, the difference between a bug and an attack vector lies in the closed source areas.

    You say many cases, let's see some examples in Safari.

  • dwaite  15 hours ago

    However, Firefox also needs to use the closed source OS when running on Windows or macOS.

    There are also WebKit-based Linux browsers, which obviously do not use closed-source OS interfaces.

    My pessimistic guess on reasoning is that they suspected Firefox to have more tech debt.