Michael Dolan Dot Com

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

News Reports and Headlines May Not Be So Black and White… NOooooo….

I read the first story on this report and knew right away it wasn’t the full story. Leave it to SVN to figure out the broader picture.

Key points:

• While Mozilla is quick to acknowledge security vulnerabilities, Microsoft denies them and wait… the number of vulnerabilities ended up double the initial volume Microsoft acknowledged.
• “Mozilla can turn around on a dime,” Levy said. “Open-source programmers can recognize a problem and patch it in days or weeks.”
• “If a vulnerability is reported to Microsoft, Microsoft doesn’t acknowledge it for at least a month or two. There’s always a certain lag between knowing about a bug and acknowledging it,” Levy said.