Developers of the American security firm WhiteHat, and after more than a year, the source code of their browser Aviator made public. It was going to be the ‘safest’ webbladeraar on the basis of Googles opensourcebrowser Chromium, but about this claim exist doubts.
The first version of the browser was released in 2013 for the Mac, while later a windows version was released. Although the browser is based on Chromium, it took a moment for WhiteHat all the code of the webbladeraar free wanted to give. This would be due to the used licenses mainly legal reasons, so draw Security.nl on the basis of statements by vice president Robert Hansen.
Aviator is based on Googles opensourcebrowser Chromium, which also serves as the basis for the popular Chrome. Chromium is known to have tabs by default run in a sandbox, what the safety benefit. In addition, the developers of WhiteHat out-of-the-box all block ads. Also they make the webbladeraar auto traffic, where possible, to redirect through Https Everywhere. In that way, by default, encrypted versions of sites.
Now the code this week been made public on GitHub, according to WhiteHat to the open source community to the browser for further development. However, if the American security company have an unknown number of releases, but it is not known how frequently this happens.
Incidentally, there are some critical noises about the alleged safety of the browser is Aviator. A beveiligingsonderzoeker of Google, like to thank Tavis Ormandy, made after the publication of the code soon via Twitter, announced that he is a problem in the code. Also was Aviator allegedly intended to earn money with it.