Re: IE vulnerabilities...

From: Karl Levinson, mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 05/18/05 

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:16:31 -0400

"Imhotep" <NoSpam@nothanks.net> wrote in message
news:pbzie.22955$aB.19726@lakeread03...

> > "Jack" </dev/null> wrote in message
> > news:8F5D5F27-8307-408C-9CA1-9FEB1574B498@microsoft.com...
> >
> >> Unfortunately, Microsoft is wasting a lot of time and money for no good
> >> reason. Once again it is not alone but is most noticable for its size
and
> > its
> >> bragging. It seems as though the employees are pretending to work to
rip
> > the
> >> company off. The language support could of
> >> been fixed years ago with an i18n implementation, which is another sign
> >> of wasting time and money. It seems as though more time is spent on
> >> marketing and excuses than developing software and fixing bugs.

> year! Second, what does this have to do with the original post? The
> original post was to notify people that there are, at least, two new
> critical security flaws in IE and that they are not going to be fixed
soon.
> What does that have to do with Mozilla or anyone else???

The link you posted, and the message that you see "Jack" posted above, were
not just discussing Microsoft vulnerabilities, but were tiredly claiming the
superiority of open source software's security. If you only wanted to
discuss the MS vulnerability, you could have posted the link to the original
eEye article and not a blog entry on how MS security stinks in comparison.
I am responding directly to the content of the link you posted, and to the
post that Jack posted. I'm not the one bringing open source comparisons
into this discussion.

> You are trying to make this "a rehashing of an old argument" I am simply
> passing on a warning to people to protect themselves...

> Again, that FACT has nothing to do with any other browser...this post is
not
> about a comparison, it is about a warning that these flaws are not going
to
> be fixed soon.

One of the three sentences in the slashdot link you posted states "news
sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's
prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear
to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of
these flaws." I'm not allowed to respond to your post?

> I am passing on
> information so people can, hopefully, protect themselves. You are wasting
> everyone's time by trying to bait me into a "browser flame war". I could
> care less...
>
> Don't know what your motives are and frankly don't care...

Maybe your newsreader screwed up the chronological display of this thread
somehow, but none of what I posted above was directed at you, but at Jack.
Unless you're Jack. As I clearly said, I appreciate your posting the link
and have no problem with the share of information, at least some of which is
undoubtedly based in fact. I never saw you arguing here that "open source
is better than Microsoft," so I never made any assumptions one way or the
other about what your opinions are on this.

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