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Weblog:   Microsoft Gets Anti-Spyware Right - Sort Of
Subject:   Common Fallacy
Date:   2005-01-15 22:57:21
From:   aristotle
Response to: Common Fallacy

Not only is the statement fallacious, it's only half the truth. Even if Firefox were just as insecure as IE, there's an issue at play he fails to even mention: reaction time. The Firefox team has acknowledged, patched and reproduced security holes, tested the patch, and put patches and patched installation packaged only within 24 hours several times. I'll eat a broom if MSFT ever manage this feat. And the average reaction time for Firefox holes is a couple of days.


I promise that noone who matters would even care about how buggy MSFT software is if their reaction times were at all acceptable.


Sometimes critical take-over-the-computer exploits go unfixed for half a year. That's plain ludicruous.