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.

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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.