coworkforce.com — The State of Colorado's Office of Technology has setup a site that says "DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE. It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk." If the leading agency for the State is making these uneducated claims, should the people worry about their other decisions?
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fejwuzhereMar 5, 2009
We are experiencing the same thing in our company. We have approx 100 engineers with degrees and anywhere from 5 - 30 years of experience where we provide engineering services including network design. Our own IT department has no clue how to setup firewalls, routers or systems, yet we deal daily with moronic directives from IT that prevent us from doing our jobs. Upper management believes that since it is IT then they know all things IT, yet the time and services we in engineering sell are of no value to our own company. If we provided our customers with service like we get from IT we would have been out of business long ago.
codeworksMar 5, 2009
I like how they're not only recommending IE, they're saying IE6 is acceptable.
gantosMar 5, 2009
Perhaps their IT department mistakes ActiveX for security.
neowolfwitchMar 5, 2009
As a Colorado resident- it is really embarrassing, especially since the site itself looks like something written by a 12-year old with an old copy of Frontpage. You can't post to "Feedback" there either- you get an error page that seems to indicate the whole thing is running on someone's desktop, out of their "My Documents" folder (complete with their login name). I think in reality- the person who wrote it (using Microsoft tools on IIS) couldn't get their masterpiece to work in Firefox, so concocted the whole "security" story.