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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's Internet Explorer Leads to Massive Privacy Compromise

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Internet Explorer Leads to Massive Privacy Compromise
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:19:36 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files

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| A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 
| browser is causing more than 50 million 
| files stored online to leak potentially 
| sensitive information that could compromise 
| user privacy, a security researcher said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/


Related:

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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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