Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx 220
Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
If only... (Score:5, Insightful)
The Web on April 1st (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:My ASCII Art Collection is back in vogue (Score:5, Insightful)
Might I recommend using the code post type in the future?
Not funny when it's obvious AND predictable (Score:5, Insightful)
If you want to make a good, truly funny April's Fool joke, you should have a very minimum of talent/inspiration, which the Slashdot editors don't.
You will notice that on Slashdot, on the 1st of April, there isn't one hidden joke-story submission, but that they are all or almost all such. This makes ALL of them un-funny. There's not "ha, you got me!" or "OK, that was actually a creative one." - there's nothing. It only really makes Slashdot look utterly, pitifully pathetic.
Re:Why not? Ascii is everything. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Is this it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Could have been plausible, but you overplayed it (Score:4, Insightful)
"at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox"
See, that's where it really went off the plausibility deep end. A good April Fool's joke can't be so obvious. It requires a touch of subtlety.
Re:Is this it? (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree, the achievement itself is an april fools joke, I don't think it actually exists.