this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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There are legitimate reasons to scan/connect to ports at localhost, the article even lists some (e.g AVs)
Hm, but browser addons?
I guess I'm mainly confused because the abilities of browser extensions have been so heavily eroded over time. Can't make an extension to manage bookmarks anymore and lots of other things. So I'm surprised it could do such things.