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Story: Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered

Posted by: Webx (Friday 7 January 2005, 2:56 AM)

Firefox without a doubt, is the best and most secure browser on the market today, and no matter what propaganda is spread throughout the net regarding its security in a negative way, those who actually KNOW will continue to use Firefox and wait until the patch is complete, not actually even thinking nor caring whether it is released or not while using it.

What is not mentioned however, is the simple fact Firefox running on Linux is quite a bit more secure than implementing it within oh..lets say...XP. For those window injected scripts, one can also mistakenly download forcibly malicious scripts as well, which in most cases, are going to directly affect your Windows OS, and not your Linux OS.
That would be almost ten fold if you by chance were actually using IE as example.

There are plenty of examples of hidden WIN32.exe links on web sites as well, in which IE will be more than happy to inject your very expensive Microsoft OS without even batting a eye, or at least giving you warning. But...of course, Firefox is growing in popularity, so let us bash them with one particular user induced error of ignorance instead, blaming it actually on the browser, and not the people using it (where the blame actually should be directed).

Perhaps more information regarding fact instead of fiction should be presented, rather than blaming security flaws of one of particular browser that used to have a monopoly on the market as a victim to such devious implementations of code because of popularity, rather than the simple fact it is in reality, a open window to your whole Windows operating system when proper measures are not taken to plug all of those holes, even AFTER the SP2 upgrade, which was basically billed s the 'security fix to end all security problems'.

Education toward the matter would help as well, properly documenting information in prevention to people that clicking on each and every link on the net or in your email is never a good idea. However, once again, rather than directing the story to prevention and education, it is seemingly disguised as a resentful demonstration toward stifling open source movements such as the Firefox browser glorifies.

I find it quite ironic in the same setting, that a multi-billion dollar corporation cannot provide security measures for their OS nor their in house programs, without a outside developer or software company providing that protection at a sizeable cost, while open source provides the best overall protection at no cost.

With that being said, this little "scare" is nothing more than a opportune moment to try and shed negative light upon a growing browser and growing movement known as open source, and maybe one day, this country will figure out that the only reason security is needed, is because they are somewhere they should not be in the first place.