New IE Holes Discovered

joelt49 writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that 7 new security holes for Internet Explorer have been discovered by a Chinese researcher; however, there apparantly aren't any attacks on IE yet." The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list. Sure, a lot of people don't like Microsoft, but that's no reason to make it worse for the millions of people who are forced to use Microsoft products, especially for security holes which have yet to be exploited.

Comments

Re:it wouldn't change anything

[GCBirzan]

He should have at least try to go down that route. My guess is he wanted his five minutes in the spotlight so he decided to make it public instead of sending them to Microsoft.

Re:No Exploit, eh?

[djdavetrouble]

whatever. As long as you understand my communication i am happy to let you delude yourself that everyone (else besides 'hackers'_) gives a flying crack hack smack what the diff is between a hacker and a cracker and a phreaker.

Trying to legitimize the word 'hacking' is about as futile as trying to get folks to say gnu/linux. To me cracking means removing copy protection from software a la 80's apple // era.

Re:Incident response times

[jokerwest]

>>I'm all for the USA taking oil from those arab,muslim savages. I won't be satisfied until we nuke that whole area and anyone country that wants to step up.

>>Arabs and muslims are nothing but roaches and should be exterminated.

>>All of them.

Unfortunately, I live in USA and I can verify most of the Americans that agree with this war have this racist attitude. They espouse the above statements today.

Actually, Americans use words in place of Arabs and Muslims that are quite offensive, I'm not going to repeat them here.