# Suffering sisyphean security solutions: make your chrome part of the solution

- Link: https://www.agilicus.com/suffering-sisyphean-security-solutions-make-your-chrome-part-of-the-solution/
- Published: 2019-04-22T12:45:00+00:00
- Author: Don Bowman

OK, its no real secret by now that the WWW is a cesspool of stuff. Its not all [/r/aww](http://reddit.com/r/aww).
As an end user, you don’t see the mountain of (typically javascript) that is executed.
Or worse, where it comes from, and how it is maintained. So you don’t act as a ‘
push back’ mechanism on the web site owners, voting w/ your feed or wallet to avoid
sites that put you at risk. And thus the [invisible hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith)
is [stayed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(poem)).

But you, yes you, can be part of the solution. And its not hard, it just involves
a coloured emoji. Sign me up you say!

Well, for Chrome (I didn’t test but there is a method for Firefox), you can install
this [extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/retirejs/moibopkbhjceeedibkbkbchbjnkadmom?hl=en).
Want to do it from source and see what you are getting? [Github](https://github.com/RetireJS/retire.js/tree/master/chrome)
is your friend!

So what happens is you surf around. Suddenly a site with some vulnerabilities crops
up. O noes, people could steal your deets. The icon changes, you snoop the list (
see the screenshot). You then pen a magnificent letter to the ‘admin@’ of the site,
they see the error of their ways and update their gruntfile or whatever, and boom,
that site has been inoculated. The [herd immunity](https://blog.donbowman.ca/2017/09/27/immunising-for-security-how-to-create-herd-immunity-for-spear-phishing/)
starts to kick in. Soon the web is a delightful place (again) full of ‘under construction’
animated gifs and dancing babies.

The example above is a real one, my wiki. Now I know I need to update my bootstrap
and jquery.

Brief, but delightful — such as had not staid long with her destiny — the javascript
crook sleeps well