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Re: Hacker Goes Public with Unpatched Browser Bugs

  • Subject: Re: Hacker Goes Public with Unpatched Browser Bugs
  • From: Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 23:59:14 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Erisian claw
  • References: <1152260653.927204.321900@k73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1336874.eBCXyiguhg@schestowitz.com> <1265ruwr27dbp.dlg@funkenbusch.com>
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:30:12 -0500,
 Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:40:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> It is easier to find vulnerabilities in a Web browser that is so adjacent to
>> the filesystem and treats the Web as such (as well as vice versa, i.e.
>> treating files and directories as though they were Web pages). This makes me
>> wonder about Konqueror, actually.
>
> How ironic that you just posted a "10 Reasons to love KDE" message, which
> includes Konqueror, which is an integrated file and web browser.
>

I can remove every trace of Konqueror from my machine, yet still browse
the web, and filesystem.

You're going to tell me you can remove every trace of IE from ms-windows
too, right? no? 

> You really don't think about this stuff, do you?


It's pretty apparant that you don't. 

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Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
I never believe anything until it's been officially denied.

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