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State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe
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?"
A more sensible approach might involve writing a well spoken, coherent, concise email. No reason to come across as a raving nutter - if someone is considering the "angry rant" approach, I'd suggest that perhaps what they are doing, is the opposite of help.
Interesting... stack trace displays are turned off by default from remote sites when using ASP.NET for security reasons. They had to explicitly turn them on to display this.
I doubt they are the best people to tell others about security...
Based on the speed at which things can get fixed by what are normally lumbering juggernauts when they are seen and reacted to by a million people on the Internet, I'd suggest that ten thousand angry rants are often much more effective than hundreds of extremely well spoken, coherent, concise emails.
In this case, a massive spew of vitriolic bile targetting squarely at the fools behind that miserably borked IIS site seems warranted, and is likely to be more effective than some pansy-assed coherent "Dear Sirs, I am writing to engage in a discussion concerning what appear to be some personal biases toward the fine products that Microsoft Corporation produces and their manifestation in a minor slight against Firefox, another fine product, on your web blah blah blah..."
Fuck that. Hoist the pitchforks! Ignite the torches! Geek wrath power ON!