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German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE
An anonymous reader writes "After McAfee's disclosure of an IE 0-day vulnerability this week that had been used in Operation Aurora, the hack and stealing of data from Google, Adobe and about 3 dozen other major companies, the German government has advised the public to switch to alternative browsers (untranslated statement). Given that the exploit has now been made public and the patch from Microsoft is still nowhere to be seen, how long will it be before other governments follow suit?"
It could happen to any browser to have the same security flaw in 3 different versions DESPITE claimed complete rewrites of the code.
MS apologists, you got to admire their dedication. The Iraqi minister of information used windows as well.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Why be fair to Microsoft in this case? Bashing where bashing is due;
IE is a highly dangerous lump of toxic/radioactive waste, with a half life of over 20 years.
Microsoft did everything wrong. Wrote the piece of shit in the first place. Tightly integrated it into windows, for leveraging purposes. Didn't even try to keep on top of updates letting it stagnate.
It will have a damaging effect on the web, web standards, and general computing, long after Microsoft drops support for any given version.