[Air-l] A new web annotation tool

[Joanne Bentley]

FYI - Utah State University is now encouraging it's faculty not to use 
Explorer.  I just bought a new computer and computer services highly 
discouraged me from even installing it for testing web sites on various 
browsers.

Joanne


At 11:45 AM 3/25/2005, you 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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