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The CBC warns us about business as usual

Written by Gordon Fecyk, 7/7/2009

SOME DAYS, RANTING IS HARD. It's tough to find a good topic that's going to catch a reader's sense of humour and make them think about something.

And other days, a rant just falls into your lap.

Take today's dire warning, for example. The CBC urged Canadians to follow complicated instructions to protect themselves from a not-yet-fixed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Again. And again. If you are a typical CBC website reader, you would tend to blame Internet Explorer for everything from your dead Xbox 360 to your dead pet goldfish.

But when a reasonable person sits back and looks at the CBC's history on this topic, a distinct pattern emerges:

• Every flaw is described as an "Emergency."
• Every flaw is "still not fixed."
• Every report comes with the same, tired old advice.
• Every flaw gets patched, sometimes before the story gets published.
• Every flaw report comes with no means to prevent exploits before the fact. And finally:
• Every flaw ends with no lasting harm to the Internet, its users, or to Microsoft.

IN OTHER WORDS the CBC is reporting business-as-usual on the Internet. All that really changed over the past two years is the CBC commenting system, allowing Apple fanboys and Linux fanatics to pump themselves up only to deflate rapidly. It's a chronic case of premature enunciation, usually found in religious nuts and politicians.

If you're a Windows user and you're panicking over the doom and gloom of the Internet found only on CBC, here's a glimmer of hope. Based on two years and forty-two Google hits, the CBC can tell us this:

• Internet Explorer is still here.
• The Internet is still here.
• Microsoft is still here.
• Before-the-fact protection is still here. And finally,
• You are still here.

At the end of the day, that's all that matters.

Related Links:

• The CBC warns us about serious (*yawn*) security flaws in Internet Explorer... again. -- Google Search
• Everyone else warns us about serious (*yawn*) security flaws in Safari -- Google Search
• Coming this fall on CBC...

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