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To: aft_lizard

Aft_lizard said:
"Its more secure because thre are far fewer users of it"

Ah, I see you buy into the Microsoft FUD that MS software is only insecure because its popular.

Would you keep your Money in a bank that was robbed daily because the claim they were popular, while they never bother locking the vault door, or even having a vault in the first place?

Where did you get the idea that because something is popular it has to be a security sieve?

I'd really like to know - because that's Bill Gates' favorite excuse. But then, Bill has the honor of having the only browser that the Dept of Homeland Security recommends you NOT use:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878


10 posted on 09/17/2004 4:30:47 PM PDT by konaice
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To: konaice

Can you disprove it? You like using jingos to make a point too? Sorry but the fact remains that if Mozilla was the number one software we would all be bitching about security problems, popups and other annoyances. Not to mention since Mozilla is open source, its hard not to argue that since the coding is open that it is easier to crack and infect. So tell me again why its safer other than it has fewer users?

Seriously you cant buy the anti-argument that its simply the program and not the amount of users.

Question to you. If you were a hacker looking to cause great amount of damage to the internet, would you choose Opera? Mozilla or IE?

Eagerly waiting.


13 posted on 09/17/2004 4:38:47 PM PDT by aft_lizard (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him)
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