On the Soapbox

Read this recently at http://adblockplus.org/blog/speaking-of-ie-security

It could just as well read out your mail or change your mail password. It could also go into your banking account if you happen to be logged in. Information on this vulnerability has been published April last year and still unpatched in both Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0.

It's no secret that IE is a bad browser, but I honestly didn't know that it was this bad until just now. I had thought that with a fully-updated IE7, I'd only be vulnerable to relatively new zero-days, not something this old. With open exploits like this along with more and more computers being infected with trojans and keyloggers, it is no wonder that the official Gmail support forums are peppered with sob stories about people who lost everything when their mail accounts were "hacked".