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Dynamics in your consideration?

So may scammers these days, so high security needed.

Would you define browser security as it relates to scammers?

Flash's question highlights the problem for everyone - communication.

Browser insiders are evangelical about the need for current browser security, but everyone else has cause for trust issues with them and cause for need skepticism.

Then everyone using Puppy is going to have a different perspective, by design.

I use my browser specifically for browsing and not specifically for security reasons. So in accordance with your poll question I had to go for "low".

Well it rather depends what security you speak of.

Cryptographic security is important in regard to any financial transactions performed online.

Just to be aware.
A billion trojans are NOT waiting for us to go online and march into our systems.I have NEVER come across any malware while general browsing.

Anti-virus.?
thousands of downloaded signatures in the hope that the one malware you come across is detected.
There is a reason eugene kaspersky is a millionaire .attained by fear.

I do same as @amethyst does, so I too voted "Low".

xenial wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 6:07 pm

Well it rather depends what security you speak of.

CVE: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/security/what-is-cve

I think of cryptographic security as applied math. E.g., I cannot decipher my openssl files in Fossa that I created in Xenial. Math.

I do not feel like I am reaping malware through browsers in Linux, but the wall of opacity is how the Internet operates in the first place, e.g., how we are a product for ad dollars clandestinely. So it may be possible that attacks are as common as anything good, I just haven't noticed them yet.

The people who take my housing payment reported a customer data breach, but I haven't noticed the culprits doing anything with my data yet. There is that latent potential as well.

If I were to gather my threat perception, it would socially/institutionally be from Russia and individually from China as they broached my Android gmail and recovery accounts. There is no guesswork in deleted emails and your Drive files being wiped out.

Berated for still using our Xenial default Pale Moon 27.6.1... or even 28, I still perceive different threats than old browsers in Puppy.

Android, paper forms, a general lack of browsing awareness, etc.

There are also serious performance-related concerns affecting browser choice, so if security is also an issue, it might be another trade-off mitigating update dogma.