Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Oct 2006 19:45 UTC, submitted by rx182
The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon. An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here. The flaw affects Firefox on Windows, Apple Computer's Mac OS X, and Linux, they said.
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2006-08-24
Democracy is based on the presumption that citizens will act as a check on the government machinery.
Open source is somewhat similar, and to be successful, requires users and other developers to devote some part of their time in helping it improve,
Firefox would go a long way if a few hundred capable people took some time to look at the source and check for exploits when the software is in RC stage than bitch about security issues after a stable release.