[DUG] FW: Web development

[John Bird]

I am mystified why any government organisations would be stuck on IE6 given 
its the best door for any hacker wanting to intrude into a system.   Its how 
Google was penetrated 18 months ago - hackers found workstations that had to 
use IE6 for historical reasons (reasons that were not all that good)

I was astonished about 3 years ago to see an unnamed government department 
workstation using a pre-release version of Firefox, ie it was so old it was 
basically the old Netscape - with diagonal arrow buttons and all, probably 
something like v0.5 and from probably 2003.

Surely any government IT department should not be relying on such old 
unpatched software if even to cover their own backsides when the inevitable 
problem occurs - its not a budget issue if free secure browsers abound.

If they have to use IE6 for intranets, do they prevent IE6 from accessing 
the outside internet?   And why can they not use later browsers for 
Intranets?

John