Well,
Did not expect to ever end up in the same boat with IE and here are we
are with two things in the same week or two.
Number two is that both IE 6 and Konqueror are susceptable to a man in
the middle attack. A MiM attack is when someone drops into the middle
of your connection to let's say you and your bank.
The MiM computer is faking themselves to appear as your bank. They might
just record everthing you type and let it continue to the bank. Thus
not giving any clue as to something being wrong. Or they can partly or
completely take over the communication and feed you what they want.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer for secure web connections) for both IE and
Konqueror has the same flaw.
Fortunately the KDE team had it fixed in an hour and a half, and you can
either download it seperately or with the KDE 3.0.3 upgrade due soon.
-- Steve_____________________________________________________________ HTML in e-mail is not safe. It let's spammers know to spam you, and sets you up for online attack through IE 4.5 and above. Using HTML in e-mail promotes it as safe to the uninitiated.
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