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Microsoft UK’s chief security officer (who is apparently trying to get a spot in the management of Dilbert's company) says Internet Explorer is now just about the most secure browser available, says Microsoft - because so many security holes have been filled.

Now, let me ask you this:

Say that you live in a neighborhood with 3 houses.

1 of those houses has been broken into 1574 times.

The other two have been broken into about 10 times, and 8 of those 10 times the first house was also broken into.

Whose house is most secure? Where would you leave your valuables overnight? Would you leave them with the guy who says, “Yeah, I’ve been broken into 574 times before, but now I have figured out all the ways that people can break in, and I have fixed them all.”

Would you trust him?

Or would you think, “Gee, for the past several years people have consistently found new ways to break in, and it seems unlikely that you have found them all... whereas these two groups over here have been pretty steady with regard to security, so I’m going to trust them.”

Oh, and let’s not forget that Microsoft fixed one security hole by removing functionality. This came after they had originally suggested that users should not click on links.

These people are jokes. I wonder if they realize how foolish they seem when they say these things.