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Germany Warns Against Using Firefox
jayme0227 writes "Due to the recent exploit in Firefox, Germany has warned against its use. This comes a couple months after Germany advised against using IE. Perhaps we should start taking odds as to which browser will be next." Note: the warning (from the Federal Office for Information Security) is provisional, and should be rendered moot by the release later this month of 3.6.2.
There is an issue with Firefox, and most users probably don't know about it because they don't regularly read tech news sites
Most users probably don't want to believe it either, due to the ridiculous pro-FOSS fud that open source means zero bugs / vulnerabilities ... "oh I couldn't possibly catch a virus from Firefox". If I remember wasn't that touted as one of the major advantages over IE ? That it was "safer" ?
Seems now, surprise surprise, that no software is safe once it leaves the lab / basement, and hackers get their grubby mits on it.
Just waiting for the iPod / iPad / iPhone to suffer a really nasty exploit, because those guys are the worst of the lot in blindly believing the preaching of the Jobs-God.
And it took German government to warn against Firefox for them to do it. Otherwise they would had waited that 30th.
Every browser is flawed. It's the internet that is insecure.
Next headline: "German government warns against using the Internet."
We're just crazy, though at least not as crazy as China.
No. When it's about Firefox it doesn't matter because "exploit" does not equate to "malware in the wild".
That's a very important distinction that the Lemmings like to gloss over in order to prop up their sorry egos. They seem to want their market leader pet product to be something other than the absolute worst on the market. The "it's better than the crap from Microsoft" rhetoric doesn't just apply to Firefox. It also applies to Opera and Safari and to Linux and MacOS in general.
It helps when you avoid doing things that the professional community has already branded as dangerous and troublesome.
One CNN report of Windows running amok with the latest virus is worth 1000 bug reports.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
However is REALLY bad, and like where Opera was 5 years ago.
You mean Opera was fast once?
Lars T.
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