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[ale] nailing down firefox security and privacy - PT 1
- Subject: [ale] nailing down firefox security and privacy - PT 1
- From: thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:58:12 -0500
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:16:15 -0400
David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> I'd planned to stay out of this one -- as much as I like a good
> debate, I've been busy lately, but I can't leave this part alone.
> There have been a sufficient number of remote code execution
> vulnerabilities that you can't say "Programs don't just auto-download
> and open on the client system, even on something as insecure as
> Windows."
If the malware in question here were using an exploit, why would it
bother trying to get the user to click on it?
Pat