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Mike Beltzner  
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 More options Apr 14 2009, 10:35 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:35:43 -0400
Local: Tues, Apr 14 2009 10:35 am
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
On 14-Apr-09, at 2:10 AM, Michael Connor wrote:

> Microsoft policy is completely important, if that's when security  
> updates stop happening.  I don't think we want to put time and  
> resources into operating systems which will rapidly be exploited.  https://isc.sans.org/survivaltime.html
>  has a fun graph which shows average time to exploit an unpatched  
> system exposed to the Internet.

This is slightly off-topic, but do we know if those exploits are from  
just attaching the Windows network stack to a port or if they're from  
browsing with IE? If it's mostly the latter, then by preserving  
Firefox support for those users we're actually helping to protect them.

cheers,
mike


 
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