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Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox
From: nicolas vigier <boklm () mars-attacks org>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:15:31 +0100
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Danny wrote:
Yes, IE security needs work. Yes, Firefox is a great web browser. However, if Firefox or any other browser had the same market share as IE, would it really be that much more secure? There sure would be a lot more people trying to find holes in Firefox if it had the same user base.
Yes, IIS security needs work. Yes, Apache is a great web server. However, if Apache or any other web server had the same market share as IIS, would it really be that much more secure ? There sure would be a lot more people trying to find holes in Apache if it had the same user base. Wooops. Netcraft tells us that 67% webservers are running Apache while 21% running IIS. Why are there so much worms targeting IIS and not so much for Apache ? The truth is that some programs have a bad design for security while some others have a better one. A good program will not have a lot of vulnerabilities even with a lot of users, a bad program will have a lot of known vulnerabilities even with not a lot of users. There are aldready a lot of people looking for holes in Mozilla, I don't think we'll see a lot of changes if 90% people start using it. -- gpg fp: 8a7e 9719 b38d 97c6 6af0 d345 12a0 3708 2c8c 3c11 http://boklm.mars-attacks.org/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox, (continued)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 11)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Scott Leff (Nov 11)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Frank Knobbe (Nov 11)
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- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox David B Harris (Nov 11)
- RE: IE is just as safe as FireFox Poof (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Borja Marcos (Nov 18)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Scott Leff (Nov 11)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox nicolas vigier (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 12)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Danny (Nov 11)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Martin Mkrtchian (Nov 11)
- Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox nicolas vigier (Nov 12)
- RE: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Curt Purdy (Nov 14)
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- RE: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox Curt Purdy (Nov 14)