US Cert's connection with Homeland Security (Score 1)

Some time back, I saw a speaker from US Cert at a data security conference put together by one of my coworkers. When the US Cert guy spoke, one of his first comments were that "US Cert" does not recommend that you use Firefox instead of IE. Our speaker did say that is what he used personally though. His explanation for this contrast was this: Homeland security is a part of the US Cert's goals and after the announcement to use an "alternative browser", Microsoft's stock went down a noticable amount. MS is a big part of our economy and this did not go unnoticed by his superiors. This latest press release from Cert does diminish my respect for their words. This line intentially left blank