[4682] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Big IE hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Beker)
Thu Mar 6 06:05:46 1997
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:59:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Beker <beker@ibm.net.il>
To: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>
cc: "'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-76-MSG-970305195741Z-202786@INET-02-IMC.microsoft.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Thomas Reardon wrote:
> Lets be clear: it IS fixed now. Please see http://www.microsoft.com/ie
>
> We take this kind of bug VERY seriously. We had a whole team of
>
I'm sure you/microsoft, take it very seriously. in the Internet browsers
and other SW products battle, a lot of amateur code is released. sometimes
it's a small functionality bug and sometimes a big security hole.
Who counts??? does someone really run quality checks on the products or
there is no time to do it?
> engineers up all night working on the fix. At the same time, we didn't
> want to cause undo panic with current users. The fact is/was that no
> users of IE had experienced any maliscious effects to date, though
> clearly they were vulnerable.
>
How can you be sure???
> -Thomas Reardon
> Microsoft
>
--Eli
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