RE: [Full-disclosure] 70 million computers are using Windows 98rightnow
- From: "Castigliola, Angelo" <ACastigliola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:50:18 -0400
Unfortunately, this thread has become less about the inherent risks of
Microsoft's EOL decision regarding Windows 98 and is now a debate of
open source versus Microsoft. This is my last post for this thread.
Again, my comment was to simply point out the underutilize method of
surfing the internet as a non-administrator instead of the open source
solution for Microsoft Windows.
The only "features" missing are ActiveX compatibility (even that can be
solved with a plug-in, but I wouldn't recommend it). Do you know how
many sites I have to load in IE that I can't view in Firefox or
Mozilla? (media rich sites, no less) None. Sure, there's the
occasional site with a broken media plugin link (I'll happily point out
that most of these sites don't work on a percentage of IE-based systems
either, as they're coded poorly because brain-dead slobs think poor
coding and IE-only compatability means "feature rich") but there's
always a better site to go to that isn't riddled with spyware or crappy
code. Not letting people view those sites is doing them a favor.prostitutes.
Over-permissiveness is not a virtue or we'd all be marrying
What you missed in my previous note is that I am simply not referring to
only websites but web applications also, specificity .NET web
applications. When I refer to feature rich I am speaking of things such
as view state, output caching, client-side validation, etc...
Angelo Castigliola III
Enterprise Security Architecture
UnumProvident
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-----Original Message-----
From: bkfsec [mailto:bkfsec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:06 PM
To: Castigliola, Angelo
Cc: full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Flavio Visentin
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] 70 million computers are using Windows
98rightnow
Castigliola, Angelo wrote:
significantly lowering risk and still enjoy theI stopped reading here. You're either joking, or trolling... because no
feature rich functionality that IE offers.
sane person would make this statement.
Feature rich?
Man, are you all there mentally? Do you even know what web standards
are?
The only "features" missing are ActiveX compatibility (even that can be
solved with a plug-in, but I wouldn't recommend it). Do you know how
many sites I have to load in IE that I can't view in Firefox or
Mozilla? (media rich sites, no less) None. Sure, there's the
occasional site with a broken media plugin link (I'll happily point out
that most of these sites don't work on a percentage of IE-based systems
either, as they're coded poorly because brain-dead slobs think poor
coding and IE-only compatability means "feature rich") but there's
always a better site to go to that isn't riddled with spyware or crappy
code. Not letting people view those sites is doing them a favor.
Over-permissiveness is not a virtue or we'd all be marrying prostitutes.
You have to be joking. Either that or you read that off the back of a
pamphlet for a web development training company.
-bkfsec
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