MS-built UK 'Government Gateway' locks out non-MS browsers
Unless MickySoft looses on appeal, this is only the beginning!! Fred _______________ http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html -- -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm@cupserv.org
I wrote to the Independent newspaper about that one! And my brother will be talking to an MP about this too. Its going to turn into a disaster (a software version of the Millenium Dome). Matt On Tue, 29 May 2001, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Unless MickySoft looses on appeal, this is only the beginning!!
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Good on you and your brother. I hope the MP takes this seriously. I'm not up on British politics or culture per se, but certain things are border-less. Bad or insecure software doesn't care about you country, culture, or politics and neither does a hacker - they just care about finding the holes. If a given hacker does have a negative attitude about you country, culture, or politics and you run insecure or bad software then there's his/her incentive to exploit the situation. And pair this with the citizens feeling that the government is partnering up with a corporation to force feed them a product and I see a lot of long nights in Parliament. I also see that this situation relating to the citizens and the politics surrounding the situation as being a self fulfilling prophecy - that's is for supplying the incentive to exploit the bad and insecure software. Lot's of scrambling politician is what I see!!! I see lots of disgruntle citizens wondering why they have to install new browsers to access a tax paid for site. I see possibly a new MP on the horizon. Why, Because Microsoft is secure and stable like a colander is good for carrying water to a man that's going to die of thirst - both are full of holes and can't do the job. I can see it now, Microsoft billboards on the side of the house of commons. "Great stuff" said Mr. Gates. Just my uninformed $0.02 U.S. Curtis Rey :) On Tuesday 29 May 2001 10:42 am, matthew johnson wrote:
I wrote to the Independent newspaper about that one! And my brother will be talking to an MP about this too. Its going to turn into a disaster (a software version of the Millenium Dome).
Matt
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Unless MickySoft looses on appeal, this is only the beginning!!
Fred _______________
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19239.html
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