IE 10 Security's Bumpy Roadblock
If you are relatively young, you think protected mode is an IE feature that stops hackers from loading malicious code (or tries to) or changing your security settings (or tries to).
If you have graying hair and are overdue for a colonoscopy you think protected mode is a way of tricking an Intel 80286 processor into addressing more than 640K (yes kilobytes) of memory so it can run Windows.
IE 10 now has an enhanced protected mode (EPM), a feature testers will eventually stumble over.
The news is good and bad. Whenever you tighten security you harm user experience. Just look at what Maxwell Smart had to go through to get into Control headquarters (if you get this reference, you probably know the first definition of protected mode, something Bill Gates pontificated on at many gatherings.)
In the case of IE 10 and the Metro interface, there is the AppContainer Sandbox. The great part is this doesn't share cookies across apps. The bad part? It doesn't share cookies across apps, so you are putting in user names and whatnot to get base level functions from some Web sites.
The nice part? When a hacker hijacks one page, he can't steal your data from another.
Posted by Doug Barney on 03/28/2012 at 1:19 PM