So the purpose of this post is to introduce you, an IT-aware but perhaps not software-engineering person, to the various issues surrounding browser security. In order to do this I’ll go quickly through some theory you need to know first and there is some simple C-like pseudocode and the odd bad joke, but otherwise, this isn’t too much of a technical post and you should be able to read it without having to dive into 50 or so books or google every other word. At least, that’s the idea. …