The Register had an interesting article the other day noting how Chase will no longer support Chrome and Opera because “creaking Internet Explorer 6 is more secure and popular than either Google’s Chrome or Opera.” Of course various versions of Firefox and Safari will be supported but the point that I can’t move past is that IE 6 is “more secure” than than any versions of Chrome or Opera. Did they miss the whole Google-China thing? Even Microsoft agrees…
“Micosoft’s Australian business unit recently equated using IE 6 to being as risky as drinking – or maybe, eating – a carton of nine-year-old milk as it lacked up-to-date cross-site scripting and anti-malware protection among other defenses.”
Determining which of anything is “more secure” is a very difficult task. For years people have noted Macs are more secure but the common counter-argument is that they are just less targeted. The same thing was said of Firefox in it’s early days. The newer browsers offer a range of built-in technologies that help protect against many of the threats users face today on the web.
I don’t know how they determined “more secure” in this case but common sense says that an old “creaking” browser is NOT more secure than the state of the art from Google or Opera.
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