Story: Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
Posted by: Jerry Mcguire (Friday 23 September 2005, 3:20 AM)
Security by Obscurity has been found to be frail. All of a certain company's undocumented features were eventually detected and exploited (when the developer/administrator community had no idea whether these features/bugs existed.) This started BIG with a program called "Sidekick" that was the first TSR on M$-DOS (when TSRs were "undocumented").
The entire symantec report actually says, Firefox finds out more issues/bugs/holes in their software and fixes them almost as soon as they are detected. While Microsoft doesn't know if an exploit has been found until the next major worm or virus or whatever hits. They're actually saying hey, look Mozilla/Firefox is better!
Full Talkback thread
Story: Mozilla hits back at browser security claim
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Even if the two browsers had equally insecure code... Rich Steiner -
Let's not lose perspective here people. Even if Fi... Call Me Yo Daddy
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Im fine with Both Internet Explorer and Fire... Albert B -
What is this REALLY telling us? It tells us that... Thomas Corriher
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Remember:
* Mozilla's core theme is Internet {brow... Cade Foster
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To Ollie Whitehouse:
You have given us the answer... Arthur B.
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Symantec and Microsoft cannot be trusted. Muc... Michael Jennings
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What is this nonsense being spouted by a supp... Mike Read
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When you think about it, Symantec's entire busines... Anonymous
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You guys bashing Symantec about this are all... Anonymous
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We've heard this all before. They're trying t... Anonymous
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perhaps people should be fair when reporting vulne... Anonymous
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Obviously symantec has to point problems on Mozill... Ramprasad B
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Replying to Thomas Corriher above:
Quote: " .... Joe Jones
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Opera8 has great security (see secunia.com) and si... Anonymous
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Last time I checked Firefox didn't automatically u... Anonymous
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Last time I checked Firefox didn't automatica... oldator
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Actually, Firefox DOES automatically update i... Omega Shenron
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As anyone thought that maybe Symantec's report is... Greg Pfister
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Is it any wonder many technologists view tech jour... Kevin Theobald
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firefox may fail to update itself, and won't give... Anonymous
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Security by Obscurity has been found to be frail.... Jerry Mcguire -
So they(mozilla) do agree that their browser are N... Anonymous
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What the hell is this symantec 'expert' talking ab... Anonymous
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The spammers with their popups are getting cl... Flash Sucks
