Convinced That all modern Web browsers suffer from fundamental design flaws that expose users to nonstop hacker attacks, researchers at an Illinois school are building a new browser from scratch, with security as the killer feature. The project, code-named OP (for Opus Palladianum) as a tribute to the Mosaic browser, is the brainchild of Samuel King, an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a renowned security expert who pioneered research around virtual machine rootkits while an intern at Microsoft.
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