Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy

Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-03

Two presenters razzed developers of the open-source Mozilla browser this weekend at the ToorCon hacking convention in San Diego with claims that the browser's Javascript implementation is flawed, but the lecture appears to have been more stand-up comedy routine than substantiative research.

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Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy 2006-10-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

I believed them when they said they had discovered the flaw. I DON'T believe them now. I suspect the real reason they've said they were joking is because it dawned on them that being a loud-mouthed idiot in public could get you in trouble with law enforcement. I'm guessing everything these guys d...

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Re: Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy 2006-10-05
Anonymous

You were at the conference and believed them when you saw the presentation or you weren't there at all and believed the news story when you read it?...

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Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy 2006-10-04
assurbanipal

Bummers!

Not worth talking about them. What a waste of time....

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stupid joke 2006-10-04
Anonymous

the problem with this is that microsoft will take this false information and turn it into FUD.

too bad these two presenters didn't take this into account...

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Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy 2006-10-05
Eric (1 replies)

Ah, yes, how funny. Wait, no the other thing, stupid. For a thing to be a joke it at least needs to be funny. ...

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Re: Mozilla flaws more joke than jeopardy 2006-10-14
Anonymous

I would certainly believe that they had initially thought that their 'vulnerability' was correct; which is why they went and did the presentation. Unfortunately for them, they probably didn't look at the issue closely and when it came time to present their findings, it didn't work and to save their...

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