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Gee, didn’t I just say this?

Yahoo! News – U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer.

The Microsoft browser, the government warned, cannot protect against vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 server programs, which a team of hackers allegedly based in Russia has exploited with a Java script that is appended to Web sites.

There ya have it folks.

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2 replies to “Gee, didn’t I just say this?”

  1. GreyDuck Says:
    July 2nd, 2004 at 4:22 pm

    As I posted to the Entercom engineering remailer when one of my fellows sent this blurb out there, “I love the recommendation, but cringe at the source.” =)

  2. Da Wolfe Says:
    July 2nd, 2004 at 4:28 pm

    Well, if the government has officially recognized the inherent security flaws, maybe this will poke Redmond enough to do something about it.