re: Black Hats are STILL finding security holes to exploit in Internet Exploder 6
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|I'm more amused by Google execs using IE.
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Well, amazingly, the world's most easily infected browser
is *still* the most-used browser[1] (Can you say "anti-trust"?)
and you do have to test on what your customers use.
If you noted how dumbed-down Google's syntax became in their last "upgrade",
you'd have seen how they are now catering to real knuckle-draggers.
|Guess they think Chrome is still [too] buggy
|to get to the Baited Chinese Honey pots.
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8-)
...though "buggy" is not a word I've heard widely used
to describe ANY WebKit-based browser.
|Never would have though Google was run by
|another Group of Clueless Computer Users.
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Having to go with the flow can be a real downer.
Inertia is a bitch--especially when that's being driven by an anti-competitive corp
to which the regulators give a free pass.
It is interesting how Redmond's massive display of incompetence
(over a LONG line of vulnerable releases) may get them more money
as non-thinking people "upgrade" to a version of Windoze (with OS tweaks)
that will allow it to run IE8 safely.
Interesting points about the Red China incident:
In order to do business in Red China,
you must first surrender sizeable portions of your "intellectual property".
The communist gov't / Red Army then clones your stuff
"so that they can widely deploy it to better serve ALL of their people".
Once they have the keys to your kingdom,
it's hard to imagine how you can defeat their efforts at "competition".
(Interesting note: Google China is also investigating their employees
to figure out who was in on what was obviously an inside job.)
The fact that the meaning of "The rule of law" changes on a whim there
is another difficulty regarding doing business in Red China.
If you get to be too sucessful, they find a "law" that you've broken
and they arrest your key people in residence there.
It will be interesting to see
how long Google continues to stay in a rigged game they obviously can't win.
More interesting will be whether other Western companies learn from the example.
M$ (who uses similar tactics to the communists) will, of course, stay there
and try to make a buck any way they can,
never even noticing what a cesspool it is they are wading in.
[1] ...though IE's >50% market share point
seems likely to fall by the end of this year.
e.g. France and Italy have put out warnings this week.
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