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The rest of the line that you quoted is:

"said James Rosko, a software engineer for a data-processing service on the Web"

I suspect this is a software engineer who had written web applications in the now-outlawed fashion. There were several other quotes in the article also, such as this one:

"It was a dumb idea to include such functionality in the first place," Kennedy said. "There are millions of other ways of logging in to a site."

And who is Kennedy?:

"William Kennedy, chief technology officer at ActivMedia Robotics and the co-author of "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide."

Why can't you give MS just a little bit of credit. They have made a baby step toward improving security, but they are still lambasted for the "way they have done it." Huh? What were they supposed to do?

Oh, I get it, fix the program so that something else does not break. Sounds easy. Fix the program to allow the ridiculously insecure practice of including log-on credentials in the very insecure URL and yet prevent possible negative security implications. I'd like to see you write the code, since you are so smart that you can challenge someone else's IQ.
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&itch..&itch...&itch  LinuxHippie | 02/04/04
Another way to say that  Chad_z | 02/04/04
here's a novell idea...  ryusen | 02/05/04
yea thats too bad  JoeMama_z | 02/04/04
when you use a browser  JWatson77 | 02/04/04
Whats your point?  rschror | 02/04/04
your pointless  stephen732@... | 02/04/04
Do a little research.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 02/04/04
not until ms play fair  JWatson77 | 02/05/04
Please....  DarbyOhara | 02/05/04
I use Win2k pimple face  JWatson77 | 02/05/04
Umm...  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
this was never a feature  JWatson77 | 02/04/04
Veeeeery Surprising  Bobby Sskcat | 02/04/04
This isn't the first time.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 02/04/04
Thanks to wrong doers  Christian_<>< | 02/04/04
Message has been deleted.  Cardinal_Bill | 02/04/04
You left something out  vferrara | 02/05/04
So did you.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 02/05/04
YOU left something out  B_HI | 02/11/04
Didn't fix a damned thing.  Yen_z | 02/04/04
Smiley Face got me.  Yen_z | 02/04/04
I tried out several of them  jfrankcarr | 02/04/04
MS putting ... security first (!)  michael-t | 02/04/04
What a stinkin' load...  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
Addendum  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
TrollSlayer??? More like Troll  PmAc_z | 02/05/04
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhtttt!  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
Not quite...  wolf_z | 02/05/04
You are correct...  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
One more thing!  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
And another thing!  TrollSlayer | 02/05/04
We need a hero  BXLE | 02/05/04
Lazy developers  dscherf | 02/05/04
lazy  BXLE | 02/05/04
It was a jab  dscherf | 02/05/04
It is about time!  ShadeTree | 02/05/04
Really  russ@... | 02/05/04
What???  ShadeTree | 02/05/04
Flawed? Maybe...  Brett04_z | 02/05/04
Not exactly  MarcB_z | 02/05/04
Oh Well........  tslocum7 | 02/05/04
Security??????????????????????????  russ@... | 02/05/04
great - break (more) standards  bschlatzer@... | 02/05/04
IE Security Patch  Jaytmoon | 02/05/04
Stop Using IE! There Are Much Better Browsers Out There  brenthawkinsmd | 02/05/04
IE Phishing Fix via Feature Removal is a Hoax  Davinci_J | 02/05/04
Interesting  jfrankcarr | 02/06/04
Its Broke?  WillGates | 02/05/04
IE the best and only web-browser  Christian_<>< | 02/05/04
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