Up to a point, this is the argument that appears several times per week on the *.advocacy usenet groups. The number of vulerabilities isn't the whole issue. In open source code, often vulnerabilities are spotted by the community, and can be patched before being exploited. We only hear about vulnerabilities in MS products after they have been exploited. If MS has any internal security auditing team, and they found some that had not been exploited, we would never know about them, they would simply be patched (or not) with the next update. I don't know how much of this applies to firefox, maybe it is less secure for all I know, but this is the general argument when people talk about number of vulnerabilities in MS vs OSS. --- JD Austin wrote: > Josh Coffman wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > I've been reading about how supposedly lots of > >insecurities are starting to show up in firefox. > ..and > >I've also read the rebuttals that basically state > >"they're lieing". I'm not sure what to believe. > > > > Even before I switched to linux, I switched from > IE > >to firefox for a few reasons. (Tried Opera for a > while > >too.) Security is not the least of those reasons. > Can > >anyone shed some light on the security of firefox > on > >win or linux? > > > >-j > > > > > > > The comments of this article spell it out nicely: > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/20/1359203&from=rss > > Watch how fast any vulnerabilities found are fixed. > I have a lot more faith in firefox than I do in IE. > The vulnerabilities in firefox do not generally > allow scum of the net to > take over your machine like flaws in IE do. > > JD > > -- > JD Austin > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC > email: jd@twingeckos.com > http://www.twingeckos.com > phone/fax: 480.288.8195 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss