-=> /* Quoting James Mckenzie to Frank Sexton */ <=-
 JM>> Very.  He is talking about the security vunerablities
 JM>> of Internet Explorer.  It is now banned on all
 JM>> Department of Defense computers.
 
 FS> James, I'm interested in this.  Do you have a reference for
 FS> the ban?
 JM> I received a message from my upper level Automation
 JM> folks that states "Microsoft Explorer is not
 JM> authorized to be utilized on any computer within this
 JM> command".  I asked them why and they stated that the
 JM> Army banned it after the security hole(s) were found
 JM> by and confirmed by outside agencies.
 JM> The Army usually bans software after the DOD has
 JM> determined that it can cause serious harm to Defense
 JM> Department equipment.  A great deal was said about the
 JM> various security "holes" at both the CERT and CNN News
 JM> sites. James
Interesting.  I work in Customer Support on a very large
NeXT Unix/WindowsNT WAN (about 15 T3's and 40 T1's in use).
I support Army, AF, Navy, Marines, civilians etc.  Over
1200 workstations just in my building alone.  And... we
just switched to Internet Exploder from Netscape.  No
mention was made of any "ban".   Hmm...
-Frank
(fsexton@xpert.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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