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The Department of Homeland Security recommends against using IE

By jeremy - Posted on 02 July 2004

HA! I was wondering when something like this would happen. "The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than MS Internet Explorer."

Frankly I wonder what took so long, especially after it was demonstrated that a Windows 2000 box could be cracked by a person using IE 5 to view a webpage with a specially crafted .bmp image.

I would strongly suggest downloading the latest version of Mozilla or Firefox.

Update: Emily switched over to using FireFox! She had to use a bookmark extension to get some of the functionality she wanted, but that is one of the strong points for open source, being able to make additions to existing projects.

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