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Personally I find the idea of a bank supporting such an outdated browser disturbing on a security level.

by talmand 8y ago

originalsimba 8y ago
the ignorant masses treat browser updating as if it's some kind of hassle rather than a necessary part of operating a computer along with a cool thing because it usually brings new features and better performance. This is a problem of education, reinforced by the fact that the people making decisions in corporations are usually part of that same ignorant masses (CEOs and such), and rarely are they people with real expertise on the subject. Plus the people who run the I.T. departments who should be correcting their CEOs failures are too afraid of being fired so they do whatever they're told. Ah humanity. It's such a simple problem to fix, and they make it so needlessly complicated.
itsmendy 8y ago
Why?
- dspillett 8y ago
  The feeling is often that using such old software implies being "backwards" so possible vulnerable to exploits in the older code. Of course while the browser is still officially supported (as IE11 is due to be for some time) security releases are still being made so it should in theory be as safe as a current browser. BUT: 1. Still using IE8 is absolutely a red flag, that stopped being supported in 2016. 2. Being so far behind with browsers may imply being behind generally, and while IE11 is still security patched maybe the organisation runs other old software that isn't (news flash: I can report that at least two organisations I know of routinely run software in their back-office environments that is not longer supported at all because the vendor closed, the product was never passed on to other maintainers or opened, and projects to replace the affected software are massively behind schedule - for obvious reasons I won't state who those organisations are and what the software is).

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Personally I find the idea of a bank supporting such an outdated browser disturbing on a security level.

by talmand 8y ago

Personally I find the idea of a bank supporting such an outdated browser disturbing on a security level.

originalsimba 8y ago
the ignorant masses treat browser updating as if it's some kind of hassle rather than a necessary part of operating a computer along with a cool thing because it usually brings new features and better performance. This is a problem of education, reinforced by the fact that the people making decisions in corporations are usually part of that same ignorant masses (CEOs and such), and rarely are they people with real expertise on the subject. Plus the people who run the I.T. departments who should be correcting their CEOs failures are too afraid of being fired so they do whatever they're told. Ah humanity. It's such a simple problem to fix, and they make it so needlessly complicated.
itsmendy 8y ago
Why?
- dspillett 8y ago
  The feeling is often that using such old software implies being "backwards" so possible vulnerable to exploits in the older code. Of course while the browser is still officially supported (as IE11 is due to be for some time) security releases are still being made so it should in theory be as safe as a current browser. BUT: 1. Still using IE8 is absolutely a red flag, that stopped being supported in 2016. 2. Being so far behind with browsers may imply being behind generally, and while IE11 is still security patched maybe the organisation runs other old software that isn't (news flash: I can report that at least two organisations I know of routinely run software in their back-office environments that is not longer supported at all because the vendor closed, the product was never passed on to other maintainers or opened, and projects to replace the affected software are massively behind schedule - for obvious reasons I won't state who those organisations are and what the software is).