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EU, by: Sean Kalinich on 1/18/2010
Remember that the EU wanted MS to remove IE completely in favor of FireFox. Do you think that some of this might be politically motivated?

Safari (for Windows and Mac) remains one of the most insecure browsers to this type of attack yet not one country has advised their population to avoid it. Then again, Google has not come out and publicly claimed that Safari was the reason for a breach. But as we watch the "Fall Out" you will be ale to see more people jump on the bandwagon for their own gain.

Still I have to go back and think about the whole strategy. Google gets out of China, Throws egg on MS' face and gets the chance to increase their market share for Chrome....

Perhaps even eating into Bing's market share along the way....
by: Anonymous on 1/18/2010
there's 150 million people in those 2 countries!! half the us population..
by: Anonymous on 1/18/2010
yeah personally I think it's a major overreaction, but now the French government is saying the exact same thing (well not quite exact - they qualify by saying "pending a patch by the publisher" but otherwise it's the same!)
Germany's move by: Sean Kalinich on 1/18/2010
I find that one very interesting...
I suppose they should tell their internet users to avoid all we browsing.
After all there is not a single browser out that can stop a user from getting infected if they are foolish and open random links.

Please bear in mind that Safari (on a Mac) was exposed to a drive by and fell in under 2 minutes at the last Pwn2Own, Firefox has been open to flaws in its latest browser and can be subjected to drive-bys and phishing. Chrome is also just as open as Safari (as it uses the same core technology). With all this going on I am actually surprised that a government would say something like this, it sounds more like a knee-jerk reaction than a rationally thought out solution.
IE by: Sean Kalinich on 1/16/2010
Thanks, I am not saying that IE is secure, nor am I saying that FireFox Mozilla, Opera, Safari or any other browser is secure. I am merely talking a look at the fact that Google and others are presenting and analyzing them.

My personal opinion is that no OS, Browser, or System is ever "secure". If there ever was such a thing then a lot of people would be out of work [including me]
by: Anonymous on 1/16/2010
Excellent article Sean - but the latest on this "rather transparent pr stunt" sees the German government recommending all internet users to use any browser other than Internet Explorer! (including ie8)
by: Radu M. Cosma on 1/16/2010
Great article! And on Saturday too. :)
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