[121606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone see a game changer here?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Jan 22 22:16:45 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <775e001a1001212126o4c6511aak73b17fc1a450ae02@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:16:03 -0500
To: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Bruce Williams wrote:
> The problem with IE is the same problem as Windows, the basic design
> is fundementally insecure and "timely updates" can't fix that.
You do realize, of course, that IE is recording less than half the =
security flaw rate of Firefox? (See =
http://prosecure.netgear.com/community/security-blog/2009/11/web-browser-v=
ulnerability-report---firefox-leads-the-pack-at-44.php)
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
