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Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes
From: ☣ frank^2 <frank2 () dc949 org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:17:32 -0800
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:
Seriously. I mean, just look at Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice. Pristine code, not a single security vulnerability between them :)
That's a red herring. His point was the public perception of the software company-- true or not-- would be hindered because Microsoft is all-encompassing. Compared to the world of open-source, the risk is distributed by the sheer virtue of software engineering being distributed amongst thousands of entities. This means that the vulnerabilities are spread across different parties, rather than having all vulnerabilities encompassed by a single party-- in this case, Microsoft. His argument was irrelevant to corporations vs. open-source being more vulnerable than one another-- it was simply a commentary on distributed risk in software engineering. -- "Did you and them get your degree from the same university of trolls? I have mistaken nothing for nothing. Fuck you." _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Christian Sciberras (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes James Matthews (Jan 20)
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- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes T Biehn (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Dan Kaminsky (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Christian Sciberras (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Michael Holstein (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Chris Evans (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes ☣ frank^2 (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Rohit Patnaik (Jan 21)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Jeffrey Walton (Jan 22)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Christian Sciberras (Jan 23)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes James Matthews (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Christian Sciberras (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes dramacrat (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Jeffrey Walton (Jan 20)
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- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes mrx (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Dan Kaminsky (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes Michal Zalewski (Jan 20)
- Re: Two MSIE 6.0/7.0 NULL pointer crashes mrx (Jan 21)
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