{"id":337,"date":"2004-07-03T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2004-07-03T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T16:23:50","slug":"dhs_says_do_not_use_internet_explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"DHS says do NOT use Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\">DHS<\/a> announcement illustrates the tremendous costs of a computing monoculture.<br \/>\nThe Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=74&#038;e=3&#038;u=\/cmp\/20040702\/tc_cmp\/22103407\">recommended for security reasons<\/a> using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Internet Explorer.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\">Opera<\/a> are two excellent browsers.   Mac users can choose from those as well as Apple&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\">Safari<\/a> browser.   There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netscape.com\">Netscape<\/a>.<br \/>\nBusiness Week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2004\/tc20040629_7734_tc120.htm\">Stephen Wildstrom also says<\/a> that IE is too risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This DHS announcement illustrates the tremendous costs of a computing monoculture. The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.&#8217;s Internet Explorer. Mozilla and Opera are two excellent browsers. Mac users can choose from those as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}