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While Microsoft talks a good game regarding caring about your privacy, their products speak differently. Most of you know that Internet Explorer is the most often attacked Web browser, hence the seemingly endless patches for it. And I know a lot of you have grown up (on the Internet) with it, but maybe the time has come you really consider learning to use a different browser — or at least until Microsoft does more than talk about your security.<\/p>\n
If you use Internet Explorer there is no way of telling when you’re connected to a secure server (https:\/\/ ) if your connection with that server is really secure of whether your ISP or some government agency, or some criminal is interloping. While the chance are somewhat slim so out-of-the-blue criminal will happen upon you, or that the NSA will be spying on you, your ISP may be — you wouldn’t know unless you were using Chrome or Firefox — it’s easy to fool I.E.<\/p>\n
Read this from the respected and renowned GRC web site about Extended Validation certificates:<\/em><\/p>\n ‘”…In Firefox and Chrome, only 100% authentic Extended Validation(EV) certificates will display the extra “Green” indication!<\/em><\/p>\n “This\u00a0www.GRC.com<\/a>\u00a0web site always uses Extended Validation (EV) certificates. So if you are viewing this EV site through a properly-designed web browser, such as Firefox or Chrome (but not Internet Explorer, since Microsoft deliberately allows EV indications to be forged) and you DO see the special EV treatment in the address bar, then you KNOW your connection to US is NOT being intercepted (and also that this page’s contents have not been altered!) But if the special EV indication is NOT being displayed . . . then you instantly know that something IS intercepting and spoofing this web site’s certificate!<\/em><\/p>\n Or to put it another way: If you are using Firefox or Chrome somewhere that never shows any EV certificates, then you ARE using a connection that is being intercepted, and your web browser is being presented with deliberately fraudulent certificates . . . since EV certificates cannot be spoofed!<\/p>\n Note that because extended validation certificates are completely spoof-proof (under Firefox and Chrome) we show the true EV status for every fingerprinted site. This allows you to determine whether any site you select should be showing as EV in your Firefox or Chrome browser….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We just wanted to make you aware of this and to give you a special heads up. If you want to read more about this please see\u00a0https:\/\/www.grc.com\/fingerprints.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While Microsoft talks a good game regarding caring about your privacy, their products speak differently. Most of you know that Internet Explorer is the most often attacked Web browser, hence the seemingly endless patches for it. And I know a lot of you have grown up (on the Internet) with it, but maybe the time has come you\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1670,1656,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}