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Thunderbird security measured up against other clients
I was browsing around Wikipedia when I chanced upon this in the Mozilla Thunderbird article:
As of March 14, 2005, security site Secunia counts 1 unpatched security flaws not yet fixed for Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x, compared to 6 unpatched security flaws for Microsoft Outlook Express 6, 2 unpatched security flaws for Eudora 6.x and 0 unpatched security flaws for Ximian Evolution 1.4.x.
Is Thunderbird safe enough for general purpose use, especially in corporations? You be the judge.
Filed under 'zz - Others (pre-2008)' | Posted on 17 Mar 2005 (Thu) by Gary Kwong at 9:37 AM. (GMT+8)
Comments
Interesting that this is 'As of March 13, 2005' since as of March 14, 2005 '1 out of 3 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.'
Posted by: Anonymous at March 17, 2005 4:56 PM
Post edited as necessary.
Posted by: skywalker at March 17, 2005 5:00 PM
not that i would use it, but Outlook Express is not the same as Outlook, which is mouch more widely used in a corporate enviroment....
Posted by: jm.one at March 17, 2005 9:39 PM
I suppose this would be a comparison of free email programs... Corporate use of these programs would vary anyway.
Posted by: skywalker at March 17, 2005 11:36 PM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286451 [major] was fixed yesterday.
Posted by: Jean-Marc Gillet at March 18, 2005 6:45 PM
Well, I'd like to use Thunderbird at work, too. But we've got that MS Outlook collaboration infrastructure, and TB just hasn't enough features. But it's great at home. I like the RSS reader!
Posted by: Tobias at March 19, 2005 2:05 AM
