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Mozilla mocks IE superiority claim
A BIG cheese in the Mozzarella Foundation has mocked a claim by Microsoft that its Internet Exploder browser is more secure than Firefox.
Jeffrey Jones, a researcher and the Security Strategy Director at Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, posted a report which compared the track records of both IE and FlamingBadger.
Not surprisingly, Jones came to the conclusion that the VoleWare experienced far fewer security vulnerabilities than FireFerret.
Writing in his bog, Mozzarella's Mike Shaver said that Jones' reasoning was a bit dodgy.
He said that that Microsoft bundles its fixes together, which means that several IE defects may be repaired, but only one vulnerability accounted for.
Mozzarella counts every defect including the ones its developers find in-house.
Vole, on the other hand, hopes that defects are not found by someone who cannot keep their mouth shut.
Mozilla is more transparent and aggressive when it comes to security, he claimed. We assume this means that you cannot see it when it bites you. µ
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Vista is in the 50 million lines of code... and being that IE is at the heart of everything that is windows thanks to Netscape war way back when.

Isn't there some rule that for every 100 lines of code there is 1 introduced error so that would make Vista have at least theoretically 50000000/100= 500,000 introduced errors and how many are "known" by the public, never mind what the 1337 hackers know about.

With companies that are open like Mozilla at least it allows every tin foiled hat programmer out there to do a check for them self while protecting them self from the satellites ... remember you need to ground that hat guys... without the grounding it won't work ;).

LOL

What makes open source software better in many senses is that it can be verified by 3rd party testers who have full access to the code making it more vulnerable/secure. I tend to like looking at it as the glass is half full so in this sense more secure. Anyway if a website that is using a secure function of a browser sees the code and thinks it isn't good he/she can code the site around the bug unlike proprietary software where you need to take the company's word for it.

At 50 million lines of code can they even be sure that it does what it is supposed to, think about it.