Damn I wrote sauvy twice, I meant suavy.
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Damn I wrote sauvy twice, I meant suavy.
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Of course Internet Explorer has the lowest number,no one uses it so the hackers stopped bothering looking for vulnerabilities.
You don't realize, not everyone is tech sauvy enough to even google for "wga crack" - also the activation code provides a way of knowing for sure if the software is pirated or legit, this doesn't concern the consumers much, but corporate customers can't pirate windows on their 15,000 workstations because it's auditable and one anonymous call from a disgruntled worker will cost them dearly. Seriously, you think MS, in this age of 6mbit connections in every city, should have absolutely no protection on their software? All software is crackable given enough time and effort, all you can do is try your best to make non-tech sauvy users have too hard of a time trying to figure out how to bypass it to make it worth pirating.
Well Opera's just in an odd position where you still need to run IE or firefox for some sites, such as Gmail and ~10% of the other websites out there because they just don't work with Opera. Other than that it's a wonderful browser.
nope. until noscript hits opera, chrome or IE, I'll be sticking with Firefox
its an addon for FF, probably a reg hack in itself, but I also have adblock plus, so...
as long as FF has addons, FF > IE
How has genuine advantage ever inconvenienced you?sure, but windows genuine advantage is neither genuine or an advantage. and it does next to nothing to prevent piracy. but it does a LOT to inconvenience the legit user. are you going to tell me that they can't do a better job then this?
but I really wasn't trying to derail the thread with MSBS. bottom line, no ad and noscript as said above for the win. I can still support sites I like (his one) and still have total control over what runs on my browser.
How has genuine advantage ever inconvenienced you?
Any time I've run across it, installing Service Packs, IE8, MSE, all it is, is one extra next button to click for it to verify. It's almost completely a non-issue. I can't see how this inconveniences a legitimate user at all.
Damn I wrote sauvy twice, I meant suavy.
I think it's pretty obvious why WGA inconveniences him. Legit user my ass. WGA server messed up what? Twice in all of Microsoft history? And people are still riding Microsoft's ass about it like it happens all the time.
Anyone who complains about WGA inconveniencing them is either exaggerating or lying about being legit.
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I think this thread is placing too much emphasis on the companies publishing their vulnerabilities...Don't you think that in itself is a vulnerability? I can understand where it's good in open source as it gives everyone a chance to work on it, but why would a closed source dev team want to publish their vulnerabilities until they have a fix ready to go, and what good would it do aside from making it easier if you are a script kiddie/etc?
It's like putting a sign up in your front yard to tell burglars that the front door is locked, but you can get in through the garage.
so firefox is the new IE??
Interesting attack numbers... IE fared pretty well but I just can't see myself ever clicking on the blue "e" ever again :<
oh firefox, please get yer $#!+ together and stop dabbling so much in toys and addons...
security is largely a user issue, not a browser one. that article fails there. and really, if you want safe browsing then nothing beats FF with NoScript. sorry but at the end of the day no browser is secure enough to overcome user ineptitude.
and seconded the comment about more likely to report and respond to bugs / security issues. Microsoft still thinks WGA prevents piracy. That already tells me that they don't have a clue.
Linux would be like this too if Windows didn't exist.With Firefox having 44% of all reported browser vulnerabilities in the first half of the year, this guy wants to know if it is time to reconsider using Firefox.