Microsoft security chief uses Firefox

[Guest Deeswift]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18173

 

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[Clownstyle]

MICROSOFT'S head of security, Stephen Toulouse, has accidentally revealed that he uses Firefox.

In an interview with Wired here, Toulouse was chatting about how security was an industry wide problem and not Internet Explorer specific.

 

Then he mentioned that only that morning he had to download an upgrade to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on his system.

 

While he meant to point out how other browsers have the same problems as IE, he just happened to reveal that he surfs using the rival browser.

 

Of course it is unlikely that he does not find IE a particularly secure proposition and there must be a really good reason he has Firefox on his computer. Here are a possible list of excuses:

 

1. His secretary downloaded it and he can’t work out how to uninstall it. He has to keep updating to prevent from being a hole in his system.

2. He finds the orange and blue colour scheme calming.

3. He ritually has to swear at it as part of a Vole management rite.

4. He uses it to see if it can’t download the same pages that IE can and then laugh if it can’t.

5. He is trying to know the enemy by using it. µ

2. He finds the orange and blue colour scheme calming.

 

FLOL

[Liam]

Doesn't mean he EXCLUSIVELY used FF, tho, does it?

 

If I was head of Sony, I'd still be rocking all the Nintendo games: how else do you know what the competition is doing or what fresh ideas are out there?

 

Innit

[Liam]

One of the things I'd like to see in FF? A right click menu option to OPEN LINK IN INTERNET EXPLORER.

 

It's a pain in the arse when you know there is a flash-heavy page that doesn't work quite right in FF, so you have to open IE manually.

 

Yes, I use FF for most things.

[Steve]

There's a plugin for that mate. I'm almost certain there is anyway. I think this is it: -

 

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

[Clownstyle]

There's a plugin for that mate. I'm almost certain there is anyway. I think this is it: -

 

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

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Handy that...Thanks Steve

[Liam]

I thought there would be, thx for it