[Air-l] A new web annotation tool

Judy Rice riceja at ldschurch.org
Fri Mar 25 10:45:15 PST 2005


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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