PSA : Firefox Flaw a Hoax
Posted on October 6th, 2006 in PSA-Types, Dumb Things That Happen, Software/Hardware Reviews, Computer software/hardware, Tech News |
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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
If you can’t trust a hacker, who can you trust? Last weekend, one of the speakers at the Toorcon security conference said he and a partner had found an unfixable Firefox flaw … they even had video of it being exploited. Well, they came clean today, and admitted it was all a hoax.
“The
main purpose of our talk was to be humorous,” admitted Mischa
Spiegelmock, in a statement made through Mozilla.org this afternoon. In
an attempt to distance himself from his colleague, Andrew Wbeelsoi,
Spiegelmock added today, “I do not have 30 undisclosed Firefox
vulnerabilities, nor did I ever make this claim. I have no undisclosed
Firefox vulnerabilities. The person who was speaking with me made this
claim, and I honestly have no idea if he has them or not.” Source: BetaNews“