On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:35:13 +0200, miroslav.rovis1 at zg.ht.hr 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.)
[...] 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.
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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 :).