Wanna see a company that is SERIOUS about security? Monday, February 1, 2010 at 11:46 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Alan Masterman wrote: |Blaming all security lapses on the software |is a bit like blaming all motor accidents on vehicle defects. ...then there are companies that don't try to shift the blame for their incompetence: For instance, Google is offering a bounty for bugs found in their Chrome Browser: $500 for most vulnerabilities; $1,337 for "particularly clever" flaws. ...and for those who don't see the significance of that number: http://google.com/search?q=define:1337+5p34k computerworld.com/s/article/9150011/Google_to_pay_bounties_for_Chrome_browser_bugs ...while M$ sits FOR MONTHS on known security flaws --and only fixes them AFTER there are actually exploits in the wild. I can't imagine why anyone would continue to give money to such a company when there are FREE alternatives that are FAR more secure. Written in response to: re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (Alan Masterman: Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 9:01 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 11:41 am) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 1:08 pm) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Tue, Jan 19, 2010, 3:25 pm) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Wed, Jan 20, 2010, 1:28 pm) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Wed, Jan 20, 2010, 1:37 pm) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (Alan Masterman: Sat, Jan 30, 2010, 9:01 am) re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Sat, Jan 30, 2010, 12:05 pm) Wanna see a company that is SERIOUS about security? (gewg_: Mon, Feb 1, 2010, 11:46 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum