{"id":188645,"date":"2010-01-16T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/16\/germany-advises-its-citizens-to-say-nein-to-internet-explorer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-16T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T22:56:02","slug":"germany-advises-its-citizens-to-say-%e2%80%98nein%e2%80%99-to-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/188645","title":{"rendered":"Germany advises its citizens to say \u2018nein\u2019 to Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsi.bund.de\/cln_183\/ContentBSI\/presse\/Pressemitteilungen\/Sicherheitsluecke_IE_150110.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/ie-germany-rm-eng-.jpg\" \/><\/a>Autsch!<\/em> In light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/12\/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th\/\">recent attacks on Google China<\/a> and Microsoft&#8217;s revelation that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/15\/ie-security-flaw-exploited-in-recent-google-attacks\/\">Internet Explorer security flaw<\/a> served as an impetus in the assault, Germany&#8217;s Federal Office for Information Security has released a warning to its population: avoid IE. Specifically, the report calls out the latest three versions &#8212; 6, 7, and 8 &#8212; but let&#8217;s face it, those older versions should be avoided on grounds of usability alone. Boy, bet the Bonn-based agency is happy about that Windows 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/06\/microsoft-reportedly-randomizing-eu-browser-ballots-ask-are-yo\/\">web browser ballot screen<\/a>, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/16\/germany-advises-its-citizens-to-say-nein-to-internet-explorer\/\">Germany advises its citizens to say &#8216;nein&#8217; to Internet Explorer<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:33:00 EST.  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In light of the recent attacks on Google China and Microsoft&#8217;s revelation that an Internet Explorer security flaw served as an impetus in the assault, Germany&#8217;s Federal Office for Information Security has released a warning to its population: avoid IE. Specifically, the report calls out the latest three versions &#8212; 6, 7, and 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}