UK Gov't Says "No Evidence" IE Is Less Secure

aliebrah writes "Lord Avebury tabled a parliamentary question in the UK regarding the security of Internet Explorer and whether the UK government would reconsider its use. He got an answer from the UK Home Office that's unlikely to please most Slashdot readers. The UK government contends that 'there is no evidence that moving from the latest fully patched versions of Internet Explorer to other browsers will make users more secure.'"

Comments

Re:IE (on Windows) is safer than Firefox

[selven]

IE doesn't have Noscript. That's a pretty big one in terms of security.

Re:Probably true, even.

[abigsmurf]

Sending data over any port the malware creator chooses is a pretty major 'only'