{"id":5868,"date":"2004-07-07T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/07\/just-browsing.html"},"modified":"2004-07-07T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T02:07:06","slug":"just_browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/just_browsing.html","title":{"rendered":"Just browsing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so Doyce has moved to a different browser<\/a>. And Les has been talking a lot about the same subject recently<\/a>, too<\/a>. And any number of other people whose opinions I respect seem to be using other, non-IE platforms …<\/p>\n

Granted that IE has security issues, riddle me this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Is there something about IE”s architecture that renders it particularly, intrinsically insecure vs. other browser platforms, or is it just that the Bad Guys find IE a more attractive target than less-used browsers? And, if so, is this more a matter of security through obscurity than anything else?\n
  2. If the danger in IE is its openness to hostile scripting (via Java or ActiveX), how is a non-IE browser going to work around that and still maintain the web functionality folks (i.e., me) want?<\/p>\n
  3. I haven’t been bitten by a security hole yet, and have the full array of AV and spyware-blocking and anti-spam stuff running on my machiune. I avoid most risky behavior (don’t open spam, don’t hit file-sharing and adult sites). How much risk am I really taking here for what return?<\/ol>\n

    I’m looking here for something a bit more sophisticated than “Micro$oft bad, Firefox Pretty” here. Any input welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Okay, so Doyce has moved to a different browser. And Les has been talking a lot about the same subject recently, too. 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