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Story: Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered

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Ok, had a quick read of some of these replies, and got the sorty from tech news on yahoo, and a few hings spring to mind...

1) your mum, grandad, uncle albert etc, really don't know there are "bugs" in the software, which make them vunrable, and to be honest, why should they? They will take things on the net at face value, with probably less worry than if the same scams were being run on snail mail etc... Why? because they are not computer literate.. they haven't got a clue.. And neither should they.. In this day and age, software such as web browsers really should be more secure. but there are always going to be flaws, whats needed is not a debate on whats right or wrong about security holes, but plain, english, non geek speak explainations, that, nothing is what it seems on the net, and well, common sense rules... Hey i live in thailand, and when your on the plane, they tell you not to buy gems, when you get off the plane they have signs up not to buy gems, all over tourist bars it says don't buy gems, and how many people each week, are scammed because they buy fake gems.. Lets face it some people are sometimes just plain stupid..

2) I'm a pro Firefox user, have been for a LONG time, and ok, its going to have a few bugs, but its at release version, 1... What version is IE at?

3) Its been mentioned about the opensource code behine firefox making it vunerable, Well linux has been pensource for years, and it doesn't have as many problems as Windows in the hacking department, please not i didn't say it doesn't have any, just not as many.... From what i can make out, its not necesseraliy the opeating system thats bing targeted, its the mentality of the company who produces it?

My final point....

What ever happened to Microsoft having to supply an alternative browser option?

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