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Bad FireFox Hole
mobrien_12:
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A problem with FireFox on Windows. Click on a malicious webpage anywhere and arbitrary code gets executed.
Partially mitigated by the Mozilla foundation by updating their servers, but not fully fixed yet.
Aloone_Jonez:
This is proof that open source software isn't always more secure.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---This is proof that open source software isn't always more secure.
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It proves nothing. Some amount of people have already said on these forums (possibly you too) something along these lines: "nothing's completely secure". I'll third, fourth, fifth or whatever it.
Oh, and by the way, Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer. Everybody knows that.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Don't be so retarded.
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That was uncalled for, I haven't Insulted you before!
--- Quote from: piratePenguin --- It proves nothing. Some amount of people have already said on these forums (possibly you too) something along these lines: "nothing's completely secure". I'll third, fourth, fifth or whatever it.
--- End quote ---
I agree.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Oh, and by the way, Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer. Everybody knows that.
--- End quote ---
No you don't say.
Opensource isn't nessacerally more secure (although as you said this exploit doesn't prove it) because the majority of users don't read the source code and this isn't the main way bugs are found anyway. Bugs are found by people discovering that a program behaves in an incorrect manner like allowing code to be executed when it shouldn't be or just crash.
For all we know Opera could be more secure than FireFox. The only difference is the FireFox source code and bug tracking system are both open. This doesn't mean that FireFox is more secure or less sure than Opera it just means we know how many bugs and exploits have already been discovered.
About Internet Explorer, I've not herd of any newly discovered exploits for a long time.and before you start I'm not saying Internet explorer is secure. If you've thought about arguing with this paragraph then please re-read my post!
Could it be possible that Internet Explorer is actually improving!?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That was uncalled for, I haven't Insulted you before!
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I know that. Read what you said.
It's just another security hole. How does it "prove" anything?
And to say that free software is _always_ more secure than closed source, is wrong.
EDIT: I edited that post. It was a bit uncalled for.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---No you don't say.
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Yes I do say, actually. So what, they found a security hole in Firefox? That doesn't mean that Firefox is less secure than Internet Explorer. And it doesn't even mean that "open source software isn't always more secure", as if "open source" software ever was _always_ more secure.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Opensource isn't nessacerally more secure (although as you said this exploit doesn't prove it) because the majority of users don't read the source code and this isn't the main way bugs are found anyway. Bugs are found by people discovering that a program behaves in an incorrect manner like allowing code to be executed when it shouldn't be or just crash.
--- End quote ---
The majority of users don't have to read the source code. All it takes is one person and you've benefitted from free software.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---For all we know Opera could be more secure than FireFox.
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Could be.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---About Internet Explorer, I've not herd of any newly discovered exploits for a long time.
--- End quote ---
Neither have I.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Could it be possible that Internet Explorer is actually improving!?
--- End quote ---
Yes it could. Or it could be (but probably isn't) that (slightly) less people are using Internet Explorer and more are using Firefox... If Firefox goes under... :nothappy:
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