Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Firefox Vulnerability Hoax? -- 10:46 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

There was a lot of buzz recently about a report at a hackers' convention that Firefox's Javascript implementation was "a complete mess" and "impossible to patch." Well, now Ars Technica has word that the whole thing is most likely a hoax. Somebody obviously thinks they're very clever. Unfortunately the media really ran with this story. I was doubtful from the first moment because they didn't show any exploit code that actually worked. When someone says that something is either great or terrible without one shred of concrete evidence, something is amiss. I'm not saying that Firefox is perfect. What the Mozilla team has succeeded in doing is getting exploit concerns out there and forcing Microsoft to really go to work on IE again.

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