RE: Well, it's about frikkin time...

["Justin Polazzo" <jpolazzo () thesportsauthority com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Jeff Rosowski
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:51 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Well, it's about frikkin time...

> Finally.
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/techmaven/techandu_03
> _09_06.htm
>
> Took them long enough.

They only integrated it with the OS in the first place because they
didn't like that Netscape was releasing a product for free that was
popular.  It has always been extremely stupid to integrate a web browser
with the operating system so much so that the web browser could not be
removed.
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Keep in mind this was a marketing driven decision, not a security one
(obviously). The reason IE was embedded so far in the OS that it
couldn't be removed is that Bill knew that a judge was going to order
him to remove it. When a Judge ordered him to remove IE and he pointed
to the fact that he couldn't, it didn't seem like such a bad thing
(except from that little aspect we call security).

Enter 10 years of remote code executions (and counting :-) 

-JP

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