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Internet Exploder (10/19/97)
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The San Jose Mercury has a nice little article in which Microsoft tries once again to downplay the seriousness of yet another Internet Explorer bug.

The bug is related to MSIE 4.0's support of DHTML, and allows people to snoop around on the browser's hard disk. In fact, it even allows people to snoop around on other people's hard disks, if they're attached via the network. And while most people would consider the fact that some random guy could access their financial records and personal correspondence pretty freakin' serious, Microsoft says they disagree. Why? Well, first of all, the data can't be changed, only read. (We at AtAT feel this statement is equivalent to saying, "We're not going to burn your house down; we're just gonna stop in and watch the game while you're at work.") And secondly, not all files can be read-- only text files and graphic files. You know, the obscure stuff.

By the way, the bug doesn't appear to affect the Mac preview version of Explorer, and Microsoft probably has yet another patch available for affected users by the time you read this. But what really strikes us about this story is, nobody even cares anymore when they find another security hole in Explorer. It's like when you hear about strife in the Middle East-- yeah, it's tragic, but man, we've heard it all before. Give it a rest already.

 
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From the writer/creator of AtAT, a Pandemic Dad Joke taken WAYYYYYY too far

 

The above scene was taken from the 10/19/97 episode:

October 19, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 98: Intel Conspiracy (10/19/97)   Following the recent Yalegate scandal,, we thought we'd point you to an interesting theory over at the Macintosh Conspiracy. Basically the author feels that by giving away Wintel machines to universities in the form of grants, Intel is actually helping Apple in the long run...

  • 100: Serious Coverage (10/19/97)   Since it's Sunday and there's not much news to cover anyway, we've just gotta toot our own horn and point you to a short WIRED article called "A Mac Star Is Born As Another Burns Out," by Kaitlin Quistgaard, which they had listed on their front page...

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