4 ms·

The "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" advised users to avoid IE at least since 2004: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=d

• tptacek 17y ago
  Did they advise users to avoid Firefox, too? Their users would have avoided a lot of security pain.
  • sovok 17y ago
    No, they just recommend using alternative browsers and to switch often. Although the BSI warned against lots of things in the interest of privacy, mostly Google products (Chrome Beta, Google Wave, ...). On the other hand they have the power to intercept and analyze the complete data- and phone communication without anonymization. They of course use it not only to find malware and security risks, as was intended in the bill, but to provide 'suspicious' data to the police and intelligence services (http://www.golem.de/0901/64639.html http://www.golem.de/0901/64639.html). We also have data retention for all communication data for six months and have planned a nice censorship infrastructure to block domains (against child pornography for now), not unlike Australia or China. But at least IE has only 40% market share... (http://www.browser-statistik.de/ http://www.browser-statistik.de/)