Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000 and XP SSL Flawed

JoeSmack writes "In amazingly unexpected news, ComputerWorld is running an article that says the SSL security hole found in Internet Explorer is not a flaw in the browser, but in the operating system itself." The article mentions that Konqueror was patched against the same bug in 90 minutes.

Comments

Oh, that's good then...

[MrFenty]

...Scott Culp, manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center said that the SSL flaw doesn't affect any other application outside Internet Explorer and that it's a client-side issue only.

Glad it's only a client side issue then.

Didn't mention Windows 95

[SpanishInquisition]

So I guess it's safe.
It's a good thing I didn't upgrade.

Oh good, it's not an IE bug

[freerangegeek]

We only wrote bad code that made it through QA for 5 different versions of the OS dating back to the mid 90s. Of course, with Palladium, our new secure platform, things like this will never happen. Good thing we got that patch out quick!

(Oh wait, that was the Konqueror people!)

We'll I'm sure with our new secure computing focus it will be out any time now. Please don't stop doing ecommerce, just because all your personal data can be hacked, just use Passport.

(Oh wait, that happens with Passport too!)

Ummmm...

90 Minutes for Konqueror fix.

[FreeLinux]

90 minutes????? What are the KDE boys doing, sleeping???

This is just unacceptable. I cannot believe and refuse to accept that it could take 90 minutes to get a major security fix out for a browser. This is completely unacceptable. It's no wonder everyone uses IE.

I guess the Microsofties were right after all. Support for open source software is nearly impossible to find.

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