Category Archives: Research

User data in the cloud: Lessons from the Sony debacle

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

Two weeks ago our friends at Sony managed to get personal information of 70 million users stolen from them. I got one of the notification emails a couple days ago myself (I must have signed up for the Playstation Network … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 13, 2010 by

Heap We have implemented a major change to the way Firefox manages JavaScript objects. JavaScript objects include script-instantiated objects such as Arrays or Date objects, but also include JavaScript representations of Document Object Model (DOM) elements, such as input fields … Continue reading →

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Narcissus/Zaphod JavaScript Research VM for Firefox 4

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

Our research intern Tom Austin released the first version of the Narcissus JavaScript Virtual Machine for Firefox 4. Narcissus is a JavaScript virtual machine written in JavaScript. Tom’s Firefox extension Zaphod allows using Narcissus as the default JavaScript engine in … Continue reading →

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