full-disclosure - IE is just as safe as FireFox

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Message-ID: <32794.198.162.158.16.1100639936.squirrel@198.162.158.16>
From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter)
Subject: IE is just as safe as FireFox

On Mon, November 15, 2004 11:25 am, joe said:
>> Everytime a Firefox exploit comes out..there is already a fix...
>> is that magic? No..it is good coding...
>
> Having a quick fix out is due to low complexity of issue and assisted by a
> lack of dependencies so you have reduced time for patching and testing. It
> has nothing to do with code quality.

But high quality code that has a sound and well documented architecture
can be more easily updated without messing up dependencies, whereas low
quality code can be a nightmare to find let alone correct even the most
trivial bug. There are always exceptions, but *in general*, it is easier
(less effort, faster turnaround) to maintain high quality code.

-Eric

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