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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Monday, July 05, 2004

Slate (MSN) : Dump IE

In case you needed more convincing after the past couple of weeks of deadly serious security holes in the world's most widely-used Web browser, Slate -- that's right, part of MSN, owned 100% by Microsoft -- is recommending Mozilla Firefox in this article by Paul Boutin.
CNET reporter Robert Lemos zeroed in on why the attack was so scary. "This time," he wrote, "the flaws affect every user of Internet Explorer." That's about 95 percent of all Net users. No matter how well they had protected themselves against viruses, spyware, and everything else in the past, they were still vulnerable to yet another flaw in Microsoft's browser.

Scob didn't get me, but it was enough to make me ditch Explorer in favor of the much less vulnerable Firefox browser. Firefox is built and distributed free by the Mozilla Organization, a small nonprofit corporation spun off last year from the fast-fading remnants of Netscape, which was absorbed by AOL in 1999. Firefox development and testing are mostly done by about a dozen Mozilla employees, plus a few dozen others at companies like IBM, Sun, and Red Hat. I've been using it for a week now, and I've all but forgotten about Explorer.
The dismissive attitude in this paragraph ("about a dozen employees") is funny considering that the author is encouraging his readers to switch. Over on Slashdot, of course, the paranoiacs reign supreme as theories are tossed about as to how a Microsoft-owned media property can dis the parent company and get away with it.
Interesting times.
|| Andrew, 5:40 PM || ||

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