Whether or how those kinds of behavior might somehow ripple down or transfer into the actual design and 'security' of an Opera browser version is difficult to determine with any certainty. Obviously, you mentioned some past indications of questionable behavior on the part of subsidiaries of one partner in Opera's new parent ownership consortium. Moreover, the kinds of 'insecurities' that may be knowingly ignored by one user may be considered 'catastrophic' by another, depending on how he defines "security". Part of the basic issue is that a browser user must necessarily entrust part of his personal data and his browsing preferences/habits to the care and competence of software designers and parent corporations which the user has never met nor really knows little about, regardless of the user's level of inquiry. However, it applies to any browser and it should be pondered continually and not just at browser adoption, if browser 'security' is a conscious factor in one's browser usage (though it's not, frankly, for many users). each of us has to make up our minds regarding the security of this Opera browser. I'm very skeptical of continuing its use given the fact that so many engineers quit within a month's period of the Chinese consortium acquiring the company.īlackbird71 last edited said in Can Opera be fully Trusted: Q.G) Qihoo "security" apps repeatedly found as unfair competition Qihoo Apps have repeatedly been banned from Apple's App Store due to issues Q.E) Qihoo apps removed from app stores due to malware Qihoo's browser is notably insecure with respect to SSL/TLS, with some of the insecure changes requiring active modification to the low-level source libraries that Chromium (of which they're based on) uses. Q.C) Qihoo browser actively enables insecure cryptography. Qihoo displayed a misleading security update for Windows users that instead installed their browser. Q.A) Qihoo masking their browser as a critical Windows security update to IE users. Here is just a small part of a much longer article containing many violations against Quiho: in 2016 Quiho was caught cheating in all the antivirus tests. Now this concerns me given the shady things Quiho 360 has done (i.e. Per a Mozilla document (WoSign and StartCom - very technical stuff) Quiho 360-related entities have done some questionable things that don’t indicate a deep understanding of the Internet’s fragile trust models." This means we - the general public - will now know way less about how Opera earns money. (I hope someone will correct this if I’m wrong here). Here are his words: "My final thoughts: AFAIK the browser-developing parts of old Opera Software is no longer a publicly traded company and will no more issue public quarterly reports and such things. Recently I came upon a short article by Hallvord R M Steen, a former software tester at Opera Software from 2000 to 2012.
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