Replies

Pinging three who I consider knowledgeable on these issues ref: article below. But anyone with knowledge please contribute.

I no longer have a series of apple computers but just use my iPhone. I am really at a loss for the ideal search engine, browser. Etc

On my phone I have Duck, Duck Go, Safari and chrome

Read this article and scratched my head read again. What are we supposed to do and why?

<>~<>

Google Chrome Government Deadline—72 Hours To Update Or Delete Your Browser

Forbes ^ | 06 02 2024 | Zak Doffman

Thread on 6/2/2024, by FReeper yesthatjallen

For Google Chrome and its two-billion-plus desktop users, May will go down as a month to forget: four zero-days and emergency update warnings inside ten days, launched a tidal wave of wall-to-wall headlines that were hard to miss.

The US government has warned federal employees to install May’s emergency updates or to cease using Chrome. And they have issued a June 3 deadline for the first of those updates to be applied. It’s now June 1, and so this is a timely reminder that you should ensure you have updated Chrome inside the next 72 hours. Okay

Others organizations should do the same, and mandate full employee compliance.

Credit to Google for the speed and efficiency with which each emergency update was released and announced, notwithstanding the awkward PR. But there remains an urgency for users the world over the ensure the updates have installed. Chrome will update automatically, but users must then close and relaunch their browser.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...

… / clip

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4241688/posts