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Bad FireFox Hole
WMD:
--- Quote ---Could it be possible that Internet Explorer is actually improving!?
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IE could be experiencing the Sendmail Syndrome: After years and years of endless patches, you're left with secure code.
Also, MS may be doing tons of Longhorn/IE7 work and not have enough time for much IE auditing.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---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.
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I agree with you, I badly mis-worded that post.
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Yes I do say, actually.
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Well I was being sarcastic, but who knows Internet explorer might for all we know be the most secure browser, but I very much doubt it somehow.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---So what, they found a security hole in Firefox? That doesn't mean that Firefox is less secure than Internet Explorer.
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I didn't mean to imply it was, you obviosly haven't read the small print. :D
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---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.
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I agree.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---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.
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True, but it still depends on who's looked at it and their skill level.
--- Quote from: WMD ---IE could be experiencing the Sendmail Syndrome: After years and years of endless patches, you're left with secure code.
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That might be true.
--- Quote from: WMD ---Also, MS may be doing tons of Longhorn/IE7 work and not have enough time for much IE auditing.
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That's possible too, but I talking more about 3rd parties discovering exploits. MS also say that IE 7 will not require Longhorn and will run on XP.
WMD:
3rd parties rarely discover the IE exploits, they reverse-engineer the patches, and release the worm or whatever.
mobrien_12:
They released a new version of FireFox and Mozilla this morning.
adiment:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---They released a new version of FireFox and Mozilla this morning.
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yep, they patched teh hole!:thumbup:
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