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Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity
From: ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 19:44:12 +0400
nuqneH, On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 03:00:30PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote:
IMHO the biggest thing that makes Firefox on Linux more secure than IE on Windows is that you don't run Firefox as root/administrator, so when it gets hacked, it doesn't 0wn the machine.
Actually there is only one major difference: you cannot be rootkited (unless there is an exploit that fits, and if you are running X11 with all modern software bells'n'whistles , there probably is) .
From other points of view owning a sole user on the machine does not
differ much. (Do they still run web browser as administrator? I think XP was designed not to do that?)
Current thread:
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Crispin Cowan (Apr 03)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Gadi Evron (Apr 03)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Steven M. Christey (Apr 03)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Javor Ninov (Apr 04)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Steven M. Christey (Apr 04)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity ArkanoiD (Apr 03)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Forrest J. Cavalier III (Apr 03)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Gadi Evron (Apr 04)
- Re: On product vulnerability history and vulnerability complexity Gadi Evron (Apr 03)