[Air-l] A new web annotation tool

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Fri Mar 25 10:59:37 PST 2005


The U.S. Government , the Swedish Government, Finnish Government are  
the three that pop up in a cursory google search.  Feel free to dig up  
more.
On Mar 25, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Judy Rice wrote:

> I agree about Explorer.  Could you provide the names of the various  
> governments
> that are warning against its use? This would help give validity to my  
> words of
> caution.
>
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> On Mar 18, 2005 jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>> I'd strongly advise that people stop using explorer, various national
>> governments have advised against using it. and stopped using it  
>> because
>> of the huge number of security holes it provides.  One of the best
>> strategies for information security is to avoid information
>> monocultures, and internet explorer seems to provide one of most
>> convincing case in points of this, because its basic core  
>> functionality
>> is tied into the o.s. itself, and thus its security problems are the
>> whole computers problem, whereas taking a browser like firefox, opera,
>> safari, etc. is far more safer because it is not a core part of the
>> o.s. and if it has an exploit, it is far less likely directly affect
>> the o.s..
>
>
>
>
> Judy Rice
> User Experience Engineer
> Family and Church History
> riceja at ldschurch.org
>
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