Browser Security News

The time when Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape, and Firebox as your window to the internet is just about done for. What is going to replace it? Rich internet applications that use components of your desktop and your browser make a more complex security model. The potential of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is to bring richer content to you, to enable you to do things faster cheaper and better. Itnews.com.au is running a piece where they state:

The browser might not hold its place long as the default Web interface, giving way to richer, hybrid desktop-Web apps, execs in one panel discussion said. Web browser technology won’t disappear, and rich Internet applications like the Joost Internet video player are being developed on top of Mozilla’s code. Source: Itnews.com.au

After playing with hybrid apps for the last week like LeapTag, Joost Beta, and trying to get my hands on Apollo (if anyone has a copy send me a note, I would love to see how it works, I missed the beta signup) to see how these kinds of processes have an impact on the two security issues that we have. Its time to retire the browser