10: Worst hoax: Firefox zero-day flaw
Want to make dozens of Mozilla developers 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.
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- Posted by: myfevertoy Posted on: 10/22/06 (Edited: 11/22/2006 @ 02:43) You are currently: Logged In | Log out
 Articles like this get me to visit your site. Thanks! steventwill | 10/13/06 |
| boy are they right about iTunes7... JoeMama_z | 10/13/06 |
 depends on your platform nix_hed | 10/13/06 |
| Yeah, Quicktime's pretty lousy... UserLand | 10/13/06 |
 Thank god for VLC nix_hed | 10/13/06 |
| Only to an... Rick_K | 10/15/06 |
| Lets add Microsoft maybe troubled241 | 10/13/06 |
| Lets maybe add Motorola support or support places troubled241 | 10/13/06 |
| Must be good, the Motorola SBG 900 Cable Modem with Cox Cable troubled241 | 10/13/06 |
 I should let you know something more. troubled241 | 10/13/06 |
| or just maybe... nix_hed | 10/14/06 |
| Message has been deleted. myfevertoy | 10/22/06 |
| You forgot the worst tech of 2006 Rick_K | 10/15/06 |
| Agreed. nix_hed | 10/15/06 |
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