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RE: An update on MS private key (in)security issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernest Hua)
Tue Feb 3 16:58:05 1998
From: Ernest Hua <Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
To: "'pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz'" <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
cryptography@c2.net
Cc: Ernest Hua <Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:26:53 -0800
One reason why many people don't bother with 4.x is the frequency of
random crashes which 4.x suffer.
Ern
In a company of 20 people (some of whom participated in this
test), only two
were running 4.x. These people are all highly competent
software developers
(presumably this includes them in the group of "sophisticated
and savvy
users" which MS were referring to), however none of the
remaining 18 wanted
to risk installing MSIE 4 because of the extent with which it
messed with
their system, possibly jeopardising their development work.
Therefore most
of these "sophisticated and savvy users" were still running
old, insecure
versions of MSIE, and weren't going to upgrade any time soon.
