full-disclosure - [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

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From: xslf at xslf.com (Shoshannah Forbes)
Subject: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

joe wrote:
> Anyway, the base cause is a simple one, Windows is consumer based and *nix
> wasn't and really still isn't. Look at the market penetrations. *nix tends
> to have people already knowledgeable with its workings or people who WANT to
> learn the details using it,

Well, Mac OSX is a fully consumer *nix. Can you say that Mac users tend 
to be " already knowledgeable with its workings or people who WANT to
learn the details using it"?

I am not so sure about it.

BTW, on Mac OSX, by default the root account is *disabled*. All 
administrative tasks are done with 'su/sudo'.

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