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Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE
LWATCDR writes "I have been saying this for a long time but now it is offical. From Yahoo News:
'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's Internet Explorer.'" In related news, rocketjam writes "According to Wired, the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers."
Yeah. That's brilliant. Let's set a precedent that it is ok to sue a software manufacturer for flaws. This way Microsoft can pay somebody under the table to sue an open-source developer into oblivion. Do you really believe that all open-source is within flaws?
Even better is that you will in a way rewarding the script kiddies by showing them that their goal of hurting Microsoft is working. This way they will step up the attacks.
Does anybody ever think things through on Slashdot or is gut reflex the only thing you know?
The difference is that youpaid MS for their software, so they should be liable up to the retail value of their useless software.
I agree. You should be entitled to the full price of Internet Explorer. Oh wait.. they offer it for free. Hmm..
Oh, I see. You have to have Windows to use IE, so you get that $$ s well. But wait, you also need a CPU. And ram. And a display of some sort. And electricity, Damn. Microsoft should be held liable for the entire cost of your existence because they keep releasing a crappy web-browsing application.
Or maybe, comsumers should make some intelligent decisions in their lives and take some responsibilty when the shit hits the fan, instead of always looking for a scapegoat. But nah.. that's be too difficult.
All you anti-MS clowns do is bitch and bitch about their products, but what are you doing to solve the problem? Nothing ?!
/. threads about anything MS and all it is good for is bitching about Bill Gates this, and never use MS that.
/. are a great place to talk a LOT of talk about how crappy it is, but what are you doing about fixing it? Not buying MS software? Who buys it from a vendor around here for face value?
MS is in 90% of computer on the market. You who sit upon the pedestal of rightousness and espouse the goodness that is everything anti-MS are 1/10 of the people who use computers. Now if math serves me that leaves 9/10 people using the product and not making a switch to all the other possiblities that are oh-so fabulous. If they are so fabulous, then why are are the MS haters only making up a 1/10 of the computer world?
And don't give me the monopoly crap, or you were forced to use it, or any other conspiracy crap. Were you forced at gunpoint to install MS OSes? Is the normal consumer going to buy a computer with an unknow, untested OS on it or the one that has been used for years and is the standard-bearer. I am not saying that MS is perfect, but you look at
Take cars for instance. The US dominated the car market for 60 years until a small group made them, better, cheaper, and more secure. So what did the US autos do? Completely changed the way they do business and determined that noone is buying crapily made cars that rust out after 2 years. Now they are on par with foreign automakers in terms of quality and are slowly regaining market share back in the US. It took time, but they were able to do it. MS is no different, sure they may worry a little about the open source, but they have such a massive foothold in the world market that open source funzones like
Continue using your open source stuff while the rest of the world continues to use MS for what it is. And yes, that includes all the issues, holes, bugs, etc. that come along with it.
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