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Why are you driving your IE?

1. I don't blame the car when some malicious punk pours sugar in the gas tank or lays down a nail strip. I blame the perp.

2. Like most people, I don't visit visit malicious websites (hak0rz, war3s, p0rn); consequently, my risk (and that of most people) of encountering exploits is damn close to 0%. You're advocating getting a new car because of a theoretical threat. Ridiculous tripe. I say don't drive through known bad parts of town.

3. If you've ever bothered to study software engineering issues/concepts, you'd realize that the defect rates for both open and closed source products are essentially the same. Consequently, you can go with an obscure/marginal application such as Mozilla/Firefox in the hope that it will paint less of a bullseye on your forehead, but don't be surprised when you're hit with the same kinds of vulnerabilities (as evidenced by this article, of all things) when hackers/crackers turn their attention to you.