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How Can I Trust Firefox?

Posted by timothy on from the how-could-anyone-trust-ie? dept.

TheRealSlimShady writes "Peter Torr (who?) from Microsoft invites a certain flamewar with his essay 'How can I trust Firefox?' He raises some interesting security related points about the download and installation of Firefox, some of which should probably be addressed. The focus is on code signing, which Microsoft is hot on. Of course, the obvious question is 'Do I trust Firefox less than IE?'"

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  1. Re:Fun Facts Time! by tarunthegreat2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hello, welcome to the 21st Century. Would just like to correct you - there is such a thing as MULTIPLE users in Windows - NT, 2000, 2003, XP (Home & Professional) all have this facility. There's no shortage of security holes, no argument. Fact is, you can set user access in Windows too. Now just because peopledecide not to, that's not a windows bug. Like you said if you run things as root in Linux...

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