__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 30 September 2006 14:29 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft Steers Firefox Users Wrong On XP SP1
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>>| After the Oct. 10 security updates, Microsoft will no longer distribute
>>| fixes to Windows XP SP1 users, including any meant to patch IE 6 SP1,
>>| the browser edition included with the pack. In addition, Windows XP SP1
>>| users will not be able to update to the more secure IE 7 when that
>>| releases in final form later this year.
>> `----
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060930/tc_cmp/193100649
>>
>> There have been cases where sick sense of humour was used, e.g. runaway
>> menus in microsoft.com. This only affected Firefox users.
>>
>> Microsoft will forcefeed all XP users, installing Internet Explorer 7 as a
>> 'high priority' security update. It's monopoly abuse.
>
> A version of IE more secure than another version of IE is hardly
> anything to shout about.
It compromises privacy, too. Do you know that Microsoft intends to optimise
search results by tracking pages that IE7 users visit? This translated to
complete logs of all traffic on the Web. Its reach is greater than that of
Google Analytics which achieves something simila, albeit at a smaller scale.
Putting aside data renbtions at ISP level, companies can soon centralise
information of the whole Web's traffic, trivailly to be used by a government
(subpenea and DoJ warrants). Get your proxies, encrypion, fake query depatch
tools and anonymous remailers ready. Oh! And a tinfoil hat, of course!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_Hat_Linux
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