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On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 01:19 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:

> === Security and Accountability ===
> 
> http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/07/10/security-issue-in-url-protocol-handling-on-windows/
> 
> Last week a security flaw was found in the way Internet Explorer
> passes a URL to Firefox.  This done via a special protocol handler
> that Firefox registers when installed on a windows system.  Microsoft
> claims this isn't their problem, Mozilla claims it is.  Luckily this
> flaw is going to be fixed in Firefox.  It's admirable that the Firefox
> developers are willing to do what's best for their users.
> 
> The moral of this story is that there are significant advantages to
> the current Linux distribution model.  If a similar flaw was found in
> Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there is nobody to bicker with.
> It's not uncommon for vendors to spend more time pointing fingers at
> each other when something goes wrong.  There can certainly be an
> advantage to getting all your bits from one place.