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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by capo on Thursday September 27, 2012 @07:53PM (#4583552)
Did Microsoft commission the study?
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by justinschuh on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:25PM (#4584166)
It's hard to say. Microsoft paid directly for these "studies" in the past, and eventually people started ignoring them. So, now NSS simply doesn't disclose who pays for them.
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by barista on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:00PM (#4583571)
Must be. Because anything Microsoft does better especially in the areas of security must be flawed or propaganda </sarcasm>
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by krichman on Thursday September 27, 2012 @11:07PM (#4584114)
Yes, that's correct, because most of us subscribe to Bayesianism.
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by Mythbusters on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:23PM (#4583676)
This HN. What did you expect?
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by mtgx on Thursday September 27, 2012 @10:18PM (#4584005)
Well I remember when Chrome's security was broken for the first and only time, by a research firm. And guess who paid for that to happen? Microsoft.

So let me repeat that. Microsoft paid a company to break Chrome's security.

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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by Torrents on Friday September 28, 2012 @11:26AM (#4585998)
First and only known time?
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Re:IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, an... by capo on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:46PM (#4583753)
It's a legitimate question; same actor released MSFT sponsored studies before: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/08/micros...
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