[121646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone see a game changer here?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sat Jan 23 16:23:20 2010
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:22:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Jan 22 21:16:53 201G
> Subject: Re: Anyone see a game changer here?
> From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:16:03 -0500
> To: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
> Cc: nanog@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)
"The number of discovered bugs in any application is finite.
The number of _undiscovered_ bugs in that same application, is, by
definition, infinite."
"Statistics don't lie, but...." *GRIN*
