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• Cognitively Challanged, Eh Rod?
  Oh, sorry, you're a developer ...
  
  You are right on one point: doing due diligence and learning about Internet Security are what FireFox and Open Source software is all about. The simple fact that anyone, anywhere can review the source code for FireFox makes it the quickest and safest browser available. Simple facts that might be difficult for the CC to grasp. Note that this exploit (well, not really an exploit, just a concern) is already patched for the next release of FireFox.
  
  MSIE, on the other hand, has security holes that M$ knows about, either because they coded them there purposefully, or they've been notified of them by a security firm, that users and system admins don't see until they become widely used public exploits -- !TOO LATE! Even then the most important fixes for MSIE are only available in XPSP2 for WinXP users -- SHAMEFUL!
  
  In the real world, FireFox proves much more secure than MSIE. Try it yourself and see. Set up a group of users with Firefox only, and another group leave them with MSIE. This test always leaves MSIE users with virus/adware/spyware and PC problems, and FireFox users troublefree.

  January 25, 2005

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