UK Open Source Media Watch

… came and went while we were not watching.

The first of these links begins with one of The Inquirer’s many hilarious “misprints”.

Here we have two related pieces, both from Guardian Unlimited, predicting the end of the info–anarchy age.

The first is from George Monbiot, commenting on the rather disturbing news that Yahoo! has been implicated in supplying the name and address of a Chinese political dissident to the authorities after he used a Yahoo! account to […]

“Experts say Microsoft’s XML play won’t backfire” – Microsoft recently broke the habit of a corporate lifetime and announced that the document formats in their new Office version would be open standard and based on XML. This comment piece discusses what Microsoft is hoping to gain through this strategy and what pratfalls and obstacles might […]

NetCraft have released a Firefox version of the anti-phishing toolbar they developed for IE. It attempts to stave off attacks by comparing websites to a central database of known sites. If you recall, Firefox had some trouble earlier in the year with phishing scams due to the way in which long subdomains were displayed in […]

IE’s market share goes down and down again, whilst Firefox goes up and up and up.

Meanwhile, Netscape - which still holds the number two spot after IE - has found itself in trouble with its security

Mozillazine has posted this response to questions about the relative security of the Firefox browser, in particular an article by Fred Langa on information week.

The BBC tech blog has this post on Firefox security, as a response to the recent slew of security problems the browser has had.

Two articles questioning Firefox’s claim to unsurpassed security, showing that, despite speedy patches, revelations of security problems are taking some of the sheen off the browser:

On Silicon.com: “Mozilla: Firefox ‘as safe as a condom’ : Browser-maker deflects security concerns by talking about sex…”, and simultaneously hits on a sure fire way of grabbing the headlines.

And […]