Up to a point, this is the argument that appears
several times per week on the *.advocacy usenet
groups. The number of vulerabilities isn't the whole
issue.
In open source code, often vulnerabilities are spotted
by the community, and can be patched before being
exploited. We only hear about vulnerabilities in MS
products after they have been exploited. If MS has
any internal security auditing team, and they found
some that had not been exploited, we would never know
about them, they would simply be patched (or not) with
the next update.
I don't know how much of this applies to firefox,
maybe it is less secure for all I know, but this is
the general argument when people talk about number of
vulnerabilities in MS vs OSS.
--- JD Austin <
jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
> Josh Coffman wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> > I've been reading about how supposedly lots of
> >insecurities are starting to show up in firefox.
> ..and
> >I've also read the rebuttals that basically state
> >"they're lieing". I'm not sure what to believe.
> >
> > Even before I switched to linux, I switched from
> IE
> >to firefox for a few reasons. (Tried Opera for a
> while
> >too.) Security is not the least of those reasons.
> Can
> >anyone shed some light on the security of firefox
> on
> >win or linux?
> >
> >-j
> >
> >
> >
> The comments of this article spell it out nicely:
>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1359203&from=rss
>
> Watch how fast any vulnerabilities found are fixed.
> I have a lot more faith in firefox than I do in IE.
> The vulnerabilities in firefox do not generally
> allow scum of the net to
> take over your machine like flaws in IE do.
>
> JD
>
> --
> JD Austin
> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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