comment on journal entry: the latest firefox bug - flagged 'extremely critical'
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Now Back to the Real World
behind you:
'...Your all are forgetting one major things with bugs. How long they take to patch is another vital thing to look at. Lets see, firefox had 2 vunrabilities which were made public at the beginning of may. Less than a week later it was patched. Have you ever seen microsoft work that fast?'
What you're forgetting is FF has exactly what to fix? A browser.
MS, OTOH, has an OS to check too, plus, they have huge legacy and an huge user-base situated in hundreds of different jurisdictions, climates, languages and thousands - if not millions - of different operational uses.
Now let's get real; no human(s) can possibly foresee all the consequences of each permutation of use before it happens - especially on such a general, but frequently used application - anyone that ships software knows that...
... and why is, "... How long they take to patch, another vital thing to look at..."? Clearly, there's been a lot more "bugs" than there have been exploits of those "bugs"... even when reported and left to stand for a while.
(... and the word "critical" is too often used for its "panic" (and marketing) appeal IMHO.)
Thinking laterally, the more "hits" that M$ products take, the more they gain a competitive advantage - Arthur C Clarke, in his last sequel novel (to "2001, Space Oddysey"), "2030", posits that virii will constitute the future "weapon of mass destruction"... wouldn't you prefer an organisation with an history of attacks to draw experience from to deal with it?
[TheWhippinpost] [reply] -
Slight correction
\"Virii\" isn\'t a word. Just thought everyone should know. [Anonymous Coward] [reply]
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