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Tuesday 29 June 2004
internet explorer deemed ‘too risky’
Well, we standards folks have been railing at Microsoft and each other regarding the crap standards support in IE 6.0. Recently, Robert Scoble and others from Microsoft addressed the issue by saying that Microsoft is more concerned with their security problems. And goodness knows they should be.
From Business Week Online, Stephen H. Wildstrom writes:
“In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws in Microsoft’s Web server software and Internet Explorer browser to compromise seemingly safe Web sites. People who browsed there on Windows computers got infected with malicious code without downloading anything.
I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about IE’s endless security problems, and this epsiode has convinced me that the program is simply too dangerous for routine use. ”
Wildstrom advocates switching to safer browsers, which of course pretty much means any browser other than IE at this point. The main advantage as I see it is that this information is now getting out to the consumer base, and the more that happens, the more people will reconsider IE, which is not only good for security, but for standards too.
Another article on eWeek, Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using supports the same premise.
Hat Tip: Byron.
Filed under: software
Posted by: site admin | 08:30 | Comments (13)
In related news, Firefox 0.9.1 was released today:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
*cough* BUZZ post? *cough*
Not to mention yet another vulnerability announcement:
http://isc.incidents.org/diary.php?date=2004-06-29
Okay, so like, I’m online again. Now to finish that whole getting-a-job business.
These vulnerabilities will just result in a new SP, no rendering issues resolved of course.
(I just downloaded IE6, and guess what, according to the product details the last full SP came out during the last Ice Age.)
It’s too bad that eWeek article is under the “Linux & Open Source” categpry – some die-hard Windows people might consider it propoganda and write it off.