[LINK] Legal issues around security [was Question: How do you protect Windows?]

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:34, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>  >Looking at it another way, if Bank-X requires their clients to use a 
> notably insecure O/S,
>  >could it be sued for a client's losses in some other context which 
> result from use of that O/S?
> 
> I certainly hope so. St George has made a change to its Website; so you 
> now get a panel opening up, advising you to change browsers. The choices 
> offered are IE, and Netscape - Mozilla not listed.
> 
> As it happens, Mozilla works fine, but to be giving out advice that 
> nearly mandates IE seems a little irresponsible...

Even more so when the US DoHS via US-CERT have positively advised
against using IE.

The problem is that these orgs have invested to heavily in a "one brand"
solution that they cannot back out without significant loss of face, and
customer, sorry, consumer, confidence.

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