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Old 02-10-2006, 02:47 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by jidar
No **** that.
I'm not going to let that shit slide.
The fact is that back when Netscape was the dominate browser and IE was just breaking onto the scene in the mid 90s with IE 3 and then 4 professionals involved with the Internet and IT were screaming about the security issues involved. At the time Netscape was crappy and crashed a lot but at least it was comparitively secure, then along comes MS with their features-first attitude and ActiveX which they then stuck on everyones desktop and told them to use. It was a terrible idea. The Unix world had already been through this features first security second attitude in the 70s and 80s and we could see it happening again. All of a sudden there was this whole feature set that had never been there before the security model was aboslutely atrocious.
People were complaining. People were complaining and it had nothing to do with Microsoft, it had nothing to do with which browser would win, it had everything to do with the fact that browsers suddenly had broken a taboo and been given access to do things they never had before. MS thought it was okay though because they had a security model around it. Of course it was a terrible model.
I personally had conversations on Usenet just like this one where we argued about why people shouldn't be using IE.

Of course the first time the job I worked at was brought to it's knees because of an IE virus I was completely livid. All of the "I told you so's" fell on deaf ears though, and now we get people who try to rewrite history.

No. The bottom line is their security model is the fault, it's always been a peice of shit, it isn't just their popularity. I know because I was there when it was rolled out, I was a part of the argument, and you're not going to tell me otherwise.
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