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    • Colorado State says IE more secure than Firefox

    The State of Colorado's Office of Technology (OIT) Skills Management website really loves Internet Explorer to the extent of labeling Firefox an insecure browser.

    They say on their website:

    Note: The MySkills Tool currently requires Internet Explorer 6 or greater for proper operation.
    DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE.
    It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk.

    Wow, thank you Colorado, for this wonderful revelation! I am way more enlightened than I was 5 minutes back. I should really uninstall Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera and start using Internet Explorer.

    More in their Questions and Answers section:

    Can I use Firefox or another Browser?
    No! For security reasons, and some significant processing issues as well, the only supported Browser is Internet Explorer Release 6 or later.

    Ah, significant processing issues, thats the real reason. Some lazy developer they hired decided to just make it "IE-compliant".

    When I tried to send a feedback on their Feedback page, this is what I got:

    Server Error in '/SKILLS' Application.
    Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

    Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    ...
    [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
    Skills.Suggestion.editfields() in C:\Documents and Settings\qeuc34\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Skills\Skills\Suggestion.aspx.vb:95
    Skills.Suggestion.sendEmailLink_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Documents and Settings\qeuc34\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Skills\Skills\Suggestion.aspx.vb:124
    System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.OnClick(EventArgs e) +90

    Are they hosting it on some Windows XP machine in the attic? Check it out yourself.

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    Posted by Arul on March 05 2009 5:12:05pm EST

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    I wonder who decide this.. chuckle. I went to the website and I got this message:

    The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment regrets that this service is not available at this time.

    I wonder if someone drove a truck through IE's backdoor???

    Posted by barry on Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:58:27am EDT.

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