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- Re: Web insecurity

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008
From: Digest administrator
Subject: To all

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Date: 20 Dec 2008 10:24:19 +0000
From: Harold Fuchs <address truncated>
Subject: Website Insecurity - Link Broken

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Date: 18 Dec 2008 22:57:49 +0000
From: Alan R Morris <address truncated> Subject: RE: website insecurity

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On another list folk were asking about free WiFi areas and others were telling them not to use them as they are insecure.  It turned into a 'bash M$ thread' - anti-IE and pro Firefox.  Every posting advised using Firefox as it did not have the yet un-fixed hole in IE.

But surprise to these 'in-the-know' folk was that their pet, Firefox is actually worse than IE.

I saw it again on clicking on Vlad's posting after yours.

The top ten apps with vulnerabilities:-

<http://www.itchannelplanet.com/security_news/article.php/3790691
In this surprising list:-
1.  Firefox
2.  Adobe Acrobat
4.  Sun Java
5.  Apple Quicktime
6.  Norton

Just outside the top 10 are:-
11.  Yahoo
12.  M$ Messenger.

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Harold Fuchs
London, England

Date: 22 Dec 2008 12:09:52 +0000
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: Re: Web insecurity

Alan, what's the insecurity posed by using MS Word, and how does using Psion Word avoid it? (How would you email a text composed in Psion Word to a non-Psion user?)

(And Merry Christmas, everyone!)

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Alan Morris wrote:
> I don't even use M$ Word to write letters, it's all done on my Psions.  I jumped from DOS direct to EPOC.  Although I had full copies of all the early Windows OS and Office programs, as a PC dealer, I never used any of them for my own use.