>Did you read the history?
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>http://www.solutions.fi/index.cgi/news_2001_11_09?lang=eng
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>it scared me more than the bug itself.
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>I'm switching to NS today.

The story is really scary, and reminds me of the shark scenario - remember, in "Jaws", the local big money man who tries to suppress any information about the shark, because it would jeopardize the tourist harvest.

My wife has a conspiracy theory that the bug was intentionally planted by MS, NSA, CIA and who knows who, and that the guys from Oy Online Solutions (who really need to be mentioned here) have found the backdoor. Combined with the Passport strategy and the known cases of industrial espionage (where USA has won several tenders against European companies, based on information they had beforehand), IE may prove to be the best spy ever.

I still have to use IE for my banking (the guys had a total redesign of the site, and it's slower now, shows less information, and can't be run in anything but IE), and I went to all the security stuff it has, and have set most of the settings to Prompt, just to know who's using what. And guess what - it says "scripting is usually safe - allow it: yes/no" about five times per page. Doesn't give me any information on what sort of scripting is this (in security setup there are about a dozen different types), which language is it etc, but asks the same question over and over.