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IE More Secure Than Mozilla?
killproc writes "Symantec has issued a report that suggests that Internet Explorer may be more secure than the open source Mozilla Foundation browsers. "According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified as high severity.
"During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," the report noted." "
if you don't use it.
Microsoft found a great way to make their browser more secure than the competition. They pay their staff to contribute code to Mozilla!
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
These are all a bunch of horrible horrible lies of course. There is no way that Mozilla is worse than IE in any aspect.
All of those bugs reported last year for IE were well founded, with serious implications that needed to be released to the public for THEIR OWN SAFETY!
Obviously these Mozilla bugs reported this year are miniscule at best, and it does the community a great disservice to release any information about them!
Gates is the devil! Impeach Bush! Katrina is a direct result of WalMart cutting lunches! And Starbucks is lacing their coffee with microscopic beta nanomachines, built to track and report our intake of caffeinated beverages!
How to respond to bad Mozilla security news on /.
1.) First, immediately dismiss the results, just like you did in the last Mozilla security story. Mozilla is flawless.
2.) Randomly reference Open Source, claiming the flaws were easier to find because of it, which has nothing to do with the report in the article and actually sounds like a criticism of Open Source, if anything.
3.) Accuse the study of bias or "shilling." ALWAYS do this when the study goes against your pre-made worldview (in this case, Mozilla being flawless). When the study gives the opposite conclusion, agree with it and praise it, often with related anecdotal stories.
4.) Reference Internet Explorer's age, which has little to do with and doesn't change Mozilla having more flaws than Internet Explorer today.
5.) Ask how quickly the Mozilla vulnerabilities were patched, ignoring that Mozilla has marked vulnerabilities "Confidential" before for them to sit for two years unfixed.
6.) Claim Internet Explorer is integral to the OS, when you argued that Internet Explorer was easily removed from Windows during the anti-trust trial.
7.) Claim matter-of-factly that, for some reason, it "goes without saying" that the study uses some sort of flawed logic, without citing the logic, giving proof, or backing the statements in any way. Simply claim it, knowing everyone will mod you up because they, too, want to believe Mozilla is flawless.
"Sufferin' succotash."