Germany Warns Against Using Firefox 509
jayme0227 writes "Due to the recent exploit in Firefox, Germany has warned against its use. This comes a couple months after Germany advised against using IE. Perhaps we should start taking odds as to which browser will be next." Note: the warning (from the Federal Office for Information Security) is provisional, and should be rendered moot by the release later this month of 3.6.2.
Re:Free software in action (Score:1, Funny)
Yes but you're forgetting the cancerous communism.
Re:Free software in action (Score:5, Funny)
That is a really poor standard you have. I don't want software that patches exploits quickly, I want software that was correctly written and had no exploits to begin with.
First (Score:5, Funny)
Then they came for Firefox, and I didn't speak up because I didn't use Firefox.
Re:Free software in action (Score:3, Funny)
What the German government should do is release an open source application which switches your default browser.
A team of German security experts would make a bi-weekly security assessment and then set the default browser for the period. ;)
Of course this browser switcher would also be able to push patches as well. Automate their recommendations!
German government warns: (Score:2, Funny)
* against the use of Opera!
* against the use of Chrome!
* against the use of internets!
Re:First (Score:4, Funny)
Re:3.6.2 released (Score:5, Funny)
http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=lynx [secunia.com]
Re:Free software in action (Score:5, Funny)
They where probably all reactions from people who program for a living.
Re:governments warn us about exploits (Score:3, Funny)
Well they warned against IE and Firefox. On Windows that narrows it down to Chrome and Opera. I'm just waiting for one more announcement so I'll know which one is the winner.
(btw please don't show off your knowledge of esoteric browsers by listing them here. those are the four biggest ones by far)
Re:Free software in action (Score:5, Funny)
OpenBSD seems to do just fine, with a bigger codebase, written in C.
Wanna guess what the difference is? They have security-obsessed people in charge.
Nobody gets credit for fixing a bug. Instead, we celebrate the people who get a fix out fastest. We don't care about flammable buildings, but we watch the response time of the fire department like a hawk.
It ain't over till the fat lady sings (Score:4, Funny)
Opera. As any fule kno, Germans are really keen on opera. They have some that go on for weeks.
Re:Pr0n (Score:3, Funny)
Rule 34a (or similar numbering).
No such system exists whereby Pr0n cannot be discerned. Bertrand Russell and and Alfred North Whitehead became very upset when Kurt Godel figured that out.
Re:3.6.2 released (Score:2, Funny)
looking at your list, there was one advisory in 2009, one in 2008, and then one in 2006. I think what is happening here is lynx is just introdusing a minor security flaw about once a year just so they can hang out with all the cool kids. They are just trying to be "edgy" and "hip".
Germany warns against using internet... (eom) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:3.6.2 released (Score:3, Funny)