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October 12, 2006

Firefox Security Exploit - The Good News & The Bad News

It seems that the kerfuffle about the Firefox browser 1.50 "zero day exploit" is just bad noise and nothing to worry about at all. Just as my favorite Internet expert said when I asked her about it. Now comes this update from C/net.

"Want to make dozens of Mozilla developers", says the article, "work on a weekend for no reason at all? Just do what hackers Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi did at this year's ToorCon conference in San Diego.

A few days after announcing that they had found a JavaScript-handling flaw that could be exploited to attack Firefox users, Spiegelmock and Wbeelsoi said they were just kidding. The joke was so funny that the entire Firefox user base and Mozilla Foundation forgot to laugh."

Just goes to show that you can't believe everything that you hear on the Internet. What impresses me though is the way that the Mozilla folks jumped right on it. Compare that with the way that the Microsofties let things slide for weeks until a patch issued.

I also wonder what an appropriate punishment would be for these two idiots wasting everyone's time? Please go to the link at C/net and get a load of these two morons. Sheesh.

And on a related note comes this news in re the Internet web browser market.

"It's no surprise", says this Ars Technica post, "that Internet Explorer has been losing ground steadily over the past couple of years. There have been no significant innovations in the browser since XP SP2 was released over two years ago, and most of those were security tweaks."

Firefox is up to 13% and gaining, in user preference. Whoa!

Posted by Ali Massoud at October 12, 2006 10:41 AM

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