{"id":14081,"date":"2004-07-06T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/06\/ditch-micro-oft-internet-explorer\/"},"modified":"2004-07-06T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T13:06:00","slug":"ditch-micro-oft-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/06\/ditch-micro-oft-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditch Micro$oft Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Get<\/a>As most of you know by now, I needed little incentive to switch from Micro$oft Internet Explorer (IE) to Mozilla Firefox<\/a> and its brethren. If you haven’t yet made the switch, last week’s latest and perhaps scariest security flaw in IE<\/a> should be a wake-up call. But don’t just take it from me.<\/p>\n

Last week the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team<\/a> (US-CERT) recommended using another web browser to avoid the inherent security flaws of IE<\/a> (other options all but cripple the usability and convenience of the web browser). For those of you who haven’t hear of US-CERT (I hadn’t), it’s “a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> and the public and private sectors… established to protect the nation’s Internet infrastructure [and coordinate] defense[s] against and responses to cyber attacks across the nation.” After US-CERT’s assessment, Mozilla downloads almost doubled<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Additionally, a recent Microsoft-owned Slate<\/i> article titled “Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla’s Firefox trumps Internet Explorer”<\/a> details the many features and security benefits that Firefox offers over IE. Now’s the time to switch…<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> It seems that Micro$oft’s fix for the recent security flaw is not complete. ZDNet<\/i> reports<\/a> that “This marks the third time in a month that Microsoft has had to play catch-up to researchers’ public disclosures about insecurities in Internet Explorer” and that “They chose to address only one part of the problem.” Although I’m glad that (for the most part) I don’t have to deal with these security flaws, my biggest fear is that people who don’t know any better will continue to put themselves and others at risk…
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As most of you know by now, I needed little incentive to switch from Micro$oft Internet Explorer (IE) to Mozilla Firefox and its brethren. If you haven’t yet made the switch, last week’s latest and perhaps scariest security flaw in IE should be a wake-up call. But don’t just take it from me. Last week … <\/p>\n

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