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To: Radix

As soon as it gets popular enough to get on the hackers' radar screen, it'll be attacked like everything else.


56 posted on 11/22/2004 2:59:48 PM PST by JimRed (Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud; turn more counties red!)
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To: JimRed

I believe much of the attacks depend on Active X which Firefox doesn't use! Thus more secure.... improve your security by moving to Linux....


76 posted on 11/22/2004 4:23:59 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: JimRed
Excerpt from the article in the Boston Globe

Websites ought to be designed in accord with the universal standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium in Cambridge. But for many designers, the temptation to use Microsoft's specialized features was irresistible. They especially like ActiveX, which basically lets the Microsoft browser install new software on a Web surfer's machine. Since ActiveX is also used by worm and spyware writers to smuggle their code onto computers, Firefox doesn't use it. This is a key reason why it's a safer browser than IE, but also a barrier when visiting some websites.

86 posted on 11/22/2004 5:06:38 PM PST by Eagle9
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To: JimRed
As soon as it gets popular enough to get on the hackers' radar screen, it'll be attacked like everything else.

True. But since IE comes bundled with windows (and most users are either uninformed or just don't care), I doubt that security problems with Mozilla browsers will reach the level associated with IE any time soon.

101 posted on 11/22/2004 6:32:06 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Megatons Make It Fun!")
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