[Gllug] IE flaws

[Ian Norton]

John Hearns wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 18:34, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
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>>Today four more serious security flaws have been announced in Internet
>>Explorer that could allow a malicious website to take over your
>>computer and use it for its own ends.
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>If we leave discussions about the quality of IE to one side,
>I think there should be some discussion of a 'monoculture'.
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>I remember it being the same way early in Windows - you had a choice
>of databases and word processors.
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Diversity is always a good thing, :-) i find myself flounting debian at 
every turn but my most used server happens to be mandrake :-)

>I venture to say that if 99% of the population switched to using Firefox
>on Windows there would be exploits crafted to attack it.
>(I know I'm not being accurate here - I'm playing the devils advocate)
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who knows, microsoft may even start making these future firefox flaws 
open source, :-) . id be suprised if the same exploits had much of an 
effect on linux or macos users tho.

Ian
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