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State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe

Posted by timothy on from the sheeps'-bladders-may-be-used-to-prevent-earthquakes dept.

linuxkrn writes "The State of Colorado's Office of Technology (OIT) has set up a work skills website. The problem is that the site says 'DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE. It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk.' (Original emphasis from site.) If the leading IT agency for the State is making these uneducated claims, should the people worry about their other decisions?"

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  1. Here's How to contact them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Email:

    oit@state.co.us

    Phone:

    303-866-6060

    Fax:

    303-866-6454

    US Mail:

    Governor's Office of Information Technology

    1580 Logan St., Suite 200

    Denver,CO 80203

  2. Re:But does the site still WORK with Firefox? by Aelyew · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually the site doesn't work whether you're using Internet Explorer or Firefox. It looks worse with Firefox because they are using some of the non-standard display tags that cause components to overlap if using a standards compliant browser. Regardless of the browser used, the result is the same: failure.

  3. Re:That's just bad by Gwala · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not being run off someones desktop - the developer in question forgot to turn debug symbols off. Debug symbols in .NET include sourcecode filenames and line numbers on Windows.

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  4. Re:The site looks like... by Camann · · Score: 5, Informative

    Relevant text in case of site slashdotted:
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0" >
    <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" >
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" >
    <title>Welcome to The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment</title>
    <link rel=stylesheet href="/commoncomponents/contentstyles.css" type="text/css">
    </head>

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  5. Re:If I were from colorado.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Secunia states that Firefox3 has less critical issues:
    http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19089/

    While IE6 and IE7 have moderate problems. Making IE less secure:
    http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/
    http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12366/

    Firefox3 also has only 1 issue unpatched, while IE6 has 22 open issues.

  6. Re:Where does it say FIrefox is insecure? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    It looks like they removed the message about Firefox being insecure. Google doesn't have a cache of the page, but you can see it in the summary:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http://www.coworkforce.com/Skills/myskills.aspx+Firefox+security&btnG=Search

    You can clearly see the text: "DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE. It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk."

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