Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 18:55 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Smile, we've been on candid camera, and we've been caught with our pants down, standing on our heads, with umbrellas between our teeth. "I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources, and I certainly haven't used it to take over anyone else's computer and execute arbitrary code. 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." Of course it did not take long for black helicopters to arrive. Microsoft has computers, so do the hackers: a link! MS is behind it all!
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RE: Dangerous to be in the public eye ;)
by dylansmrjones on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 19:49
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RE: Dangerous to be in the public eye ;)
by sbergman27 on Tue 3rd Oct 2006 23:11
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Member since:2005-07-24
Pardon my paranoia, but I can't help but wonder if there might have been something of substance to this whole business. Was it really all a joke?
OK. Probably, it was.
But it seems to me that this is exactly the sort of statement that Mozilla Corp would request that he make if he decided to take the $500 per exploit after all. ($15,000 USD if all 30 were valid.)
That's probably just a paranoid delusion... right?
Edited 2006-10-03 23:12
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2006-01-26
These days you just can't go around publicly degrading a security-sensitive product with a security-sensitive fan-base (even if you're mostly joking)... unless you have all the proof to back up your claims.
I'm glad this guy apologized publicly - that's the only right thing to do in that scenario.
Still important to note that his code crashes Firefox, so at least he wasn't a complete farce.
Edited 2006-10-03 19:24