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UK - Government Comes Under Fire by Internet Security Experts

by greg1usa | October 28, 2010 at 10:31 pm

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The UK Goverment has come under fire from privacy experts because it refused to upgrade computer browsers from Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, a version no longer supported by Microsoft.

“The government rejected a petition that it upgrade from IE6. The government in its response says that there is "no evidence" that upgrading away from the "latest fully patched versions of Internet Explorer to other browsers will make users more secure."

Last September Microsoft urged the Government to upgrade because IE 6 was outdated and had known security vulnerability's.

Weather or not other Goverment agencies will follow suit in upgrading remains to be seen.

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RICHARD REEVES (not verified)

at 01:16 on October 29th, 2010

Most of the UK government online servers are running Linux. Certainly wherever security is a issue

Gil Went (not verified)

at 09:27 on October 29th, 2010

They recently purchase hundreds of Vista systems at the full price, still its only tax payers money there wasting.

greg1usa

at 16:34 on October 29th, 2010

Hundreds of Vistas systems at full price?

If a private company operated that way they would soon be in financial difficulty, at least not making a good return on their investment. Oh wait, the Government is in financial trouble! LOL