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IE7 Leaked
lju writes "IE7 has been leaked according to pcpro. From the article: '...last Friday it was revealed that a build of the new browser - version 5299 - along with numerous screenshots, was available online.' "
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So has the first exploit been leaked too?
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IE7 Leaked, as in memory? :]
"Tabbed browsing" and "ability to delete browsing history"? This story must be a duped, because this browser was leaked to the public years ago. At the time, I think they called it "Firefox."
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The linked article is titled "Internet Explorer 7 leaks onto Internet".
Yeah, I can't think of a more apt analogy than Microsoft taking a big leak all over the internet. They've been pissing on us for years.
IE7 can't possibly leak as much as Firefox. That browser is a memory pig! But I guess that's the price for security and "standards compliance"
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Last I checked, MSIE 7 is available via MSDN subscriptions, Action Pack subscriptions, and even Microsoft's own web site . It's not like anyone outside of M$ has not seen MSIE 7.0 already. So a single build got leaked a little early -- this is a) nothing unusual and b) not anything significantly different from what was previously made available through legitimate. This strikes me as: "Oh boy, screenshots of a beta everyone has been able to download for months. Oh wait, this is DIFFERENT because the build number in help-> about is different."
Now if the SOURCE were leaked, that would actually be something newsworthy.
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Wow! People were right, they really changed the branding of IE6, and man is it full of bugs! Look at how much RAM it uses!
Maybe you should check out IE8.5, you can get it here.
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I wonder how big and clunky Internet Explorer would be if it wasn't tied into the Operating System.
For Firefox, I want it to stop becoming ridiculously slow after intensive usage, and continue to use 140MB in the background after I close all of its windows...
Seriously, what's with the memory leak?
"some Windows fans took matters into their own hands"
I think they misspelled captives
This is such an ignorant statement. I hate seeing it, and I see it over and over again on slashdot.
First, it assumes that there are no local privilege escalation exploits. This is a poor assumption, especially on Windows, but really on any OS with privilege levels.
Second, it assumes that your personal data is not worth anything. Yours might not be, but mine is.
Third, it assumes that there isn't some way to muck with the system to get Administrator to run something when they log in. This is not a safe assumption either. Hell, there's still people running FAT32 on Windows XP. They have no protection.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If look at the security hole listings for IE, there are exactly 3 buffer overflow problems found in the entire history of the browser.
Three documented buffer overflow problems. Keep in mind that Microsoft is well known for its lack of documentation in both bugs and operating system "features." Also remember that buffer overflows aren't the only kind of "non-stupid-user" vulnerability in any application (e.g. heap overflows).
And of course when running as non-admin, all the security exploits are irrelavent.
Disregarding the fact that "irrelavent" is not an English word, how many Windows users do you know who actually run as a non-admin? I don't; I know I should, but it's a pain in the ass, and I consider myself knowledgeable enough to know how to prevent most issues and to fix any that should happen to come up as a result of vulnerabilities.
Just because it can't be explained doesn't mean it isn't true. Science fits into reality... not the other way around.