RE: [Ring-of-Fire] IE is just as safe as FireFox

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric McCarty wrote:

> First off, this is 100% PR bullshit. The guy has never run Firefox,
> Opera, or anything other than IE. So he might as well say "According to
> this piece of paper the PR people gave me, IE is as secure as any other
> Browser". 

Or he read and was citing <perhaps without reference?> Michal Zalewski's
<lcamtuf () ghettot org> recent paper and release of browser testing tools
that many developers are now employing in the A&D?  Zalewski's recent
seems to support the hypothosis.  This does not  undermine the idea that
M$ in making explorer keyed into the OS at such core levels that it
weakens the whole structure of the OS itself though <all to own and retain
market share>.  

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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