Re: Where is the notificiation about IE zero day vulnerablity?

From: fluidly unsure (dripping_at_mailinator.com)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:52:59 GMT

Imhotep wrote:
> karl levinson, mvp wrote:
>
>
>>"Imhotep" <imhotep@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>news:AeWdnWMVkZ3bRRTeRVn-tg@adelphia.com...
>>
>>>Has anyone noticed that there has been NO NEWS coverage about this? I
>>>guess
>>>those MS advertising dollars are working against the simple act of
>>>notifying their customers about this critical condition....

[snip]
> Still do not see it on the non-techie sources (CNN, Yahoo, etc). I do
> remember back when Firefox had the IDN issue it was all over the news web
> sites (and that one have a day zero work around). However, I still find it
> interesting that the popular news sources are not carring the article...

I think this is because of the claims many people have made making IE/OE
sound like FF/TB is the panacea for security.

High profiles like that make for a big brag factor that pseudo malicious
teens covet more than sex with their neighbor's servants. It's the same
reason Kevin Mitnick's site was hacked twice and GRC was knocked off the
Internet.

You and I know the IDN problem was overblown. But so was IE/OE's
insecurity. A good way of looking at this is Roberta Bragg's statement
in MCPMAG.COM that "IE is not secure but securable". It just takes more
effort than most users can or are willing to do.

IE/OE's securities are commonplace so they get little press anymore.
FF/TB's problems is a bigger deal because it was supposed to be a
solution to IE/OE.

[snip]
> Add to value here??? Sure it does. Customers could temporally use firefox or
> opera and surf safe....I think that adds a lot of value here. Again, if
> news sources carried the article....which is why they probably are not.
> Again, MS has a lot of advertising dollars to spend somewhere....

True, but until there is some checkable evidence, it falls into the
realm of Elvis sightings.

Personally, I feel somewhat safe putting SP2 and Eric Howe's
EnoughIsEnough on a computer. (I do use FF/TB myself) 

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