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Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE

Posted by timothy on from the and-while-you're-at-it-mull-over-your-OS dept.

Hoyceman writes "About 80,000 students and staff are being told to use an alternate browser. The Penn State ITS department sent the alert 'because the threats are real and alternatives exist to mitigate Web browser vulnerabilities.' InformationWeek is carrying the story."

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  1. heh :) by Phil246 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the university where im at, the lecturer on our web authoring course encourages us to " get a life " if we like windows, or internet explorer.
    Problem is, hes a mac fan and encourages us to get one of those instead.
    cant have it all i suppose

  2. Re:safari? by the+pickle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In a word, yes.

    IE on the Mac is a horrid, horrid abomination of a browser. The only worse browser features-wise is Opera.

    IE for the Mac has several outstanding security issues (sorry, but I don't have current links) that will never be resolved because Microsoft has terminated development of IE. Good riddance, I say. It wasn't EVER a competitive browser on OS X, and it's hardly competitive on OS 9.

    To answer your other question, well, yeah, Mac IE is less dangerous that Win IE because of its lower level of OS integration, but they're both still pretty crappy browsers compared to what else is out there.

    p

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  3. Re:About time by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the hell sort of pussy college are YOU going to?

    All I can see is a soul crushing workload, at least the same amount of homework as you have class; probably more if you're not 100% effective, and saying to your buddies "sorry, I can't go out drinking tonight, I have to finish these EE questions".

    Rebellion? Who has the time?

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