Interesting

[bob3160]

While driving in Port Charlotte Fl. yesterday,
we stopped to take the following picture:



No, I didn't go out of the car. after all, I have a presentation coming up in Florida on the 27th and would like to do so
outside of this gators belly. 

[CraigB]

Don't know what your worried about Bob, we've got Goannas/Monitors bigger that and there probably more aggressive too.
The kids over here would play with that like a pet   

Wait till you've seen a 20 to 25Ft salty ( Crocodile )

[bob3160]

Don't know what your worried about Bob, we've got Goannas/Monitors bigger that and there probably more aggressive too.
The kids over here would play with that like a pet   

Wait till you've seen a 20 to 25Ft salty ( Crocodile )

I'd be happy to photograph the big ones. Just send me round trip air fare.

[CraigB]

Just send me round trip air fare.

Keep hoping Maybe avast will pay for your trip to Aus

[Dch48]

I lived in Cape Coral, FL , just south of Port Charlotte, for 35 years and gators like that were a common sight on golf courses and just about anywhere there was water. After one of the bigger storms, a neighbor went out to check his pool only to find a 10 footer happily swimming in it. I frequently had small ones follow my bass lures while I was fishing in the canals and lakes .

[bob3160]

Full Moon

[bob3160]

Sad but apparently true:
Windows XP and Firefox take 25-year lead in security flaws

[Dch48]

Sad but apparently true:
Windows XP and Firefox take 25-year lead in security flaws

Interesting quote from the article.

For high-severity vulnerabilities, the product Windows XP earns the dubious distinction of the No.1 spot. "What's also interesting here is that of the top four browsers that have a total of 90 percent of the browser market share, Firefox has the most vulnerabilities in every category, followed by Chrome, then Internet Explorer and finally Safari," the report concludes.

[FreewheelinFrank]

Sad but apparently true:
Windows XP and Firefox take 25-year lead in security flaws

Vulnerabilities in Firefox are openly disclosed and Mozilla has a policy of fixing them quickly, which has meant that Firefox has been remarkably secure over the years- a success story and nothing to be sad about. Vulnerabilities in closed source software may not be disclosed, even after they are fixed. There is also the question of how long vulnerabilities remain unfixed and whether they are used in attacks. Meaning this is a stupid measure of security for a browser, as usual.

[!Donovan]

To add onto FreewheelinFrank's reply,

As Firefox and Chrome are open-sourced, it is only natural that more bugs are to be found; but because it is open-sourced, they will be fixed by the community. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, isn't open sourced. So naturally, less bugs will be announced to the public domain. The bad guys would want to keep the vulnerability from going public for as long as possible, no?

~!Donovan

[Dch48]

To add onto FreewheelinFrank's reply,

As Firefox and Chrome are open-sourced, it is only natural that more bugs are to be found; but because it is open-sourced, they will be fixed by the community. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, isn't open sourced. So naturally, less bugs will be announced to the public domain. The bad guys would want to keep the vulnerability from going public for as long as possible, no?

~!Donovan

It has nothing to do with what was announced by the browser providers but rather with flaws that were discovered by anyone, in house or not. Independent analysts all the way.

[polonus]

Hi Dch48,

Now they are saying that about Windows XP a year further down in time they will say it about Vista,

pol

[Dch48]

Hi Dch48,

Now they are saying that about Windows XP a year further down in time they will say it about Vista,

pol

I don't think so. As bad as Vista is/was, it was always rated as more secure than XP.

[FreewheelinFrank]

To add onto FreewheelinFrank's reply,

As Firefox and Chrome are open-sourced, it is only natural that more bugs are to be found; but because it is open-sourced, they will be fixed by the community. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, isn't open sourced. So naturally, less bugs will be announced to the public domain. The bad guys would want to keep the vulnerability from going public for as long as possible, no?

~!Donovan

It has nothing to do with what was announced by the browser providers but rather with flaws that were discovered by anyone, in house or not. Independent analysts all the way.

If in-house flaws are not disclosed, then they cannot be part of the analysis.

Microsoft doesn't report all security vulnerabilities that it fixes in its software. Bug comparisons between vendors therefore paint an incorrect picture.

"We don't document every issue found," Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), said at a meeting with reporters at the company's corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/197410/Microsoft_patch.html

[Dch48]

To add onto FreewheelinFrank's reply,

As Firefox and Chrome are open-sourced, it is only natural that more bugs are to be found; but because it is open-sourced, they will be fixed by the community. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, isn't open sourced. So naturally, less bugs will be announced to the public domain. The bad guys would want to keep the vulnerability from going public for as long as possible, no?

~!Donovan

It has nothing to do with what was announced by the browser providers but rather with flaws that were discovered by anyone, in house or not. Independent analysts all the way.

If in-house flaws are not disclosed, then they cannot be part of the analysis.

Microsoft doesn't report all security vulnerabilities that it fixes in its software. Bug comparisons between vendors therefore paint an incorrect picture.

"We don't document every issue found," Mike Reavey, director of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), said at a meeting with reporters at the company's corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/197410/Microsoft_patch.html

They most certainly can when discovered by independent analysts. If they don't get discovered that way, then they're not important.