I'm a mystical humanist with naturalistic leanings and receptivity to disclosure of the divine. I meander comfortably amid the Confucian-Taoist motifs and stories of my heritage. My religious vision is tempered by existentialism, grounded in earth-centered spiritualities, aligned with the wisdom of Western tradition, especially Judeo-Christian, and bathed in trustful agnosticism.

-- Tom Owen-Towle, Freethinking Mystics with Hands

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Thursday, December 29. 2005

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

There's been a lot of talk in the online media about how Firefox's "honeymoon" is over. Articles showing that Firefox has more vulnerabilities than IE have been cropping up frequently.

Most of the articles cite Secunia for the list of vulnerabilities. But dig into the numbers, and a different picture emerges. Secunia lays out all the numbers (see the upper right hand corner of their webpage). But they summarize it:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Highly critical

Mozilla Firefox 1.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical

Opera 8.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Not critical

More graphs and charts from Secunia below:

Criticality of vullnerabilities:

Impact of Vulnerabilities:

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