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- RandoTheKing, on 04/27/2008, -17/+279As long as you aren't a complete idiot, you're fine no matter what browser you use.
- soundman07, on 04/27/2008, -13/+230Sigh. I was afraid this would begin to happen. At least Mozilla releases patches every few weeks to fix vulnerabilities while Microsoft kind of just lets IE sit around with known vulnerabilities half the time.
- spyd3rweb, on 04/27/2008, -13/+202The difference is, the firefox bugs get fixed.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/27/2008, -3/+154No matter how many patches MozDev team release, there isn't one for human stupidity :V
- HolyMan28, on 04/27/2008, -2/+140You're not the 1,000,000th viewer. Those free screen savers are too good to be true.
As long as that's understood, you'll be fine. - slowmotiony, on 04/27/2008, -19/+118People switch to Safari?
- zjbird, on 04/27/2008, -1/+82was this decided at the last national hacker meeting?
- mquannie, on 04/27/2008, -21/+96"Case in point: We have no IE bugs to report this month, but both Firefox and Safari have been hit hard."
That's because IE users are so stupid they don't even know if they're hacked, let alone reporting bugs. - inactive, on 04/27/2008, -3/+75-Meeting called to order
-Everyone kind of shuffled around, no eye contact made between any members
-Mumble mumble hack firefox
-Jolt and Jello social
-Picard vs. Kirk discussion (3 hours)
-No official adjournment, everyone just sort of left at random - Drahkar, on 04/27/2008, -9/+72This has always happened. Mozilla just patches the problems faster so it becomes less apparent. This is just the media looking for a new 'Big Thing' that they can stir up to get ratings. The truth is scriptkiddies go after anything that will give them a big audience. Its how you handle them that matters.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/27/2008, -9/+70More like Safari installs with that Itunes update V:
- m00n1, on 04/27/2008, -4/+60As I recollect, some of the GDI issues could be exploited simply by viewing an image.
Also, some of these attacks are simply loading a JS file. Don't get too cocky. - hagerman, on 04/27/2008, -8/+63Real men use lynx.
- soapko, on 04/27/2008, -3/+52fta: "Think you're safe because you don't have Safari? You may have it without realizing it. Apple now distributes its browser with iTunes updates. Forget to uncheck a box in one of these updates, and it's there."
So… the implicit warning here is that you are unsafe even if Safari is *merely installed* on your machine. Uh, huh. Riiiight. - forgiste, on 04/27/2008, -4/+50That only goes to show how little you know about the open-source community.
- jermm, on 04/27/2008, -0/+45And if that porn video is only 58KB and the filename is *****.avi.exe, don't download it.
- Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -6/+48"The latest versions of Firefox--2.0.0.13 on--will stop all five bugs."
But my OS came with Firefox 3b5 pre-installed... - Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -1/+28I use Firefox because I can't trust my kids not to accept IE ActiveX controls from websites. Sure it asks them, but they just want the box to go away, and click on everything to achieve that.
- NanoStuff, on 04/27/2008, -2/+28Sure there is.
-Windows needs your permission to run this program. Allow or Deny?
Allow
-***** that, it could be a virus. Denied. - mrigns, on 04/27/2008, -12/+36NoScript AddOn. nuff said.
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -1/+24Telnet
- SystemError51, on 04/27/2008, -1/+24Safari is not entirely open source - only WebKit the rendering engine, is.
- Nekiruhs, on 04/27/2008, -0/+23Oh, right, the one I was absent from. Does anyone have a copy of the minutes?
- pushmouse, on 04/27/2008, -9/+31Tell us about when Microsoft released steady streams of patches. I seem to have no memory of that.
- CatsAreGods, on 04/27/2008, -1/+22The new Ron Paul browser!
- chrispr, on 04/27/2008, -3/+23HOW DO I RESIST LESBIAN PORN?
- MtheoryX, on 04/27/2008, -7/+27Security through obscurity?
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -4/+24Running Ubuntu don't you. Good for you.
- XIStEw13IX, on 04/27/2008, -3/+22i still say Picard was better then Kirk, i wonder if there will be any girls at the next meeting.
- sancho, on 04/27/2008, -5/+24Microsoft has never been on the ball. Come on, they wait until Patch Tuesday to release anything! Most vulnerabilities in OSS are fixed THE NEXT DAY.
- sinatosk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+20dude... it's good news ( sort of :p ) that they target Firefox and Safari :p... just means they're getting more popular
and as you said... they release patches often so I wouldn't worry about it much...
Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Windows, Linux, Mac OS... it's good to show people there is more than just one choice
That's my opinion anyways... - treelovinhippie, on 04/27/2008, -23/+42I wonder if Microsoft is behind the attacks ;)
- alwaysmc2, on 04/27/2008, -2/+20I wouldn't put it past the conspiracy theorists to surmise that!
- pushmouse, on 04/27/2008, -2/+17Patch Tuesday would only happen once a month regardless of flaws
- Vigacmoe, on 04/27/2008, -1/+16what browsers hackers use?
- aeveritt, on 04/27/2008, -1/+16Just as likely? You can't be serious. If you don't install porn dialers or every plugin under the sun, you've already cut your risk down by like 95% from the most ignorant users.
- nxsty, on 04/27/2008, -3/+17This article looks like FUD to me. There is no evidence that hackers will start targeting Firefox and Safari. Sure, Firefox and Safari had more reported bugs than IE but how many undisclosed vulnerabilities are there in IE that we don't know about? That's one good thing about open software, you always know what's going on and what's being fixed etc. Yawn. Wake me up when there is an Firefox or Safari exploit out in the wild that actually affects people.
- perogi21, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13wtf is suger?
- richardhenry, on 04/27/2008, -1/+14There is more than one Tuesday in a four month period. Microsoft don't seem to know that.
- MtheoryX, on 04/27/2008, -1/+14* lose, not loose
- dawpa2000, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13Bugs found in IE 7: "Again? Typical."
Bugs found in Safari 3: "It's okay. It's still a beta. These things happen."
Bugs found in Firefox 2: "ZOMG MAH PERFECTS BR0WZER IS ON FIRES!!!1!"
Bugs found in Opera 9: "Yay! We're getting attention!"
Bugs found in Konqueror 3.5: "It'll be fine if you delete ~/.konqueror, download the nightly from the svn, recompile your kernel and the latest X.org, and short out pin 7 and 9 on the pci slot on your NIC" - richardhenry, on 04/27/2008, -1/+14That's exactly why the open-source Microsoft Windows and open-source Internet Explorer have so many vulnerabilities! Damn it!
- MtheoryX, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12* Nice usage of punctuation. Learn how to write, seriously.
Fixed ;P - Bulletbillx, on 04/27/2008, -7/+19Its spelled lulz newfag.
- ATLien74, on 04/27/2008, -4/+15I've been using Opera lately (on mac). It seems to be the quickest loading, and least likely to freeze up.
- Elvaanish, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11I pretty much hate grammar Nazis, but eh... you were asking for this one.
You forgot the final period on your example of correctly punctuated sentence.
If you're going to be a douche while you correct someone... be correct. - GIFF3, on 04/27/2008, -6/+17Nice usage of punctuation. Learn how to write seriously.
- bilangew, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11wget, and parsing the html by reading it with 'cat'
- sancho, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11Erm.
$ telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 74.125.45.103...
Connected to www.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:22:38 GMT
Server: gws
Connection: Close
<html><head>
...
I think that you're wrong. - frontporsche, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11I don't recall ever having trouble staying logged into digg using firefox.
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