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RE: IE is just as safe as FireFox
From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:29:09 -0600
Borja makes a good point. Just like asking...why do e-mails have incorrect words in them, when they are all instantly spell checked? ;)
-----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Borja Marcos Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:47 AM To: Poof Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1Why is it that Microsoft's code has less quality eventhough all codethat's written is instantly audited? (Each line of code is checked before it's 'passed' in to the code tree.)Design, design and design. Also, design. Writing programs isn't a simple matter of writing code and auditing it for buffer overflows. What about the lousy MIME-type handling in IE, detecting intelligently (but after declaring it harmless in the "security check") that a program disguised as an audio file could actually be an executable, and happily running it? It is bad design. The same as ActiveX. Why are many IE security problems avoided by disabling "Active Scripting"? There seems to be an obsession with "code" these days. And people affected by such disease forget that the code should come after a good design, and a bad design can only be fixed scaping it and starting over. Borja. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBnLX5ULpVo4XWgJ8RAlTJAJ92yXv8C5ArhrGzsHCNXBQHyECqhQCcDoL9 LGLighoTQw5rSwV2/mMp72k= =TDnR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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