Media bias rears its ugly head on IE7 'flaw'
In all my years following IT coverage, I have never seen a minor issue that Secunia rates a 2 on a scale of 5 get so much negative attention from the press. Just to put this in perspective, Mozilla's alternative browser Firefox has three of these 2-rated vulnerabilities unpatched and two of them are two years old (here and here) yet the typical comparisons being made to Mozilla is that they patch their vulnerabilities in a day or two. But for IE7's 2-rated flaw, many are declaring IE7 a security failure on its first day after its launch. If this is the standard for determining success or failure in the security of software, we may as well stick our heads in the sand and go back to pen and paper.