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Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the warning-is-years-late-in-coming dept.

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."

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  1. 100K downloads a day... by tcopeland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...whew. That's as much as the most popular SourceForge project.

    And I thought my charts spiked after I started mirroring CVS... crikey.

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  2. Re:Marlon Brando dead by windex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. A *correct* troll.

    (In awe.)

  3. Re:If it's broke...well....we'll fix it later by Short+Circuit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Scary thought...can you imagine a divorce settlement from the second richest man in the world?

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  4. Re:Man, this'll be just liek when video games norm by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh my god drown yourself in a toilet.

  5. ^H is an anachronism already! by cybpunks3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, I'm starting to get really tired of the whole ^H anachronism. It's like the computer equivalent of the needle scratch sound effect they use in movie trailers for punchlines.

    Is it even possible to generate a visible control code like this anymore? How many people are replying to Slashdot using a telnet session and a Pico editor? Come on. Get into the 21st century.

  6. Re:Bad Bureaucrat! Naughty! by tobinibot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You do realize you're still talking in TINFOILHAT, right?

  7. Re:Bad Bureaucrat! Naughty! by OECD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, well that explains the rest of the comments on this page... I better fix that:

    </TINFOILHAT>

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