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Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-surprise-here dept.

Suchetha wrote in with a Wired News bit talking about security hole in IE that allows malicious web pages to reformat a hard drive. The Wired talks more about bugtrack's handling of the whole thing, and how it essentially posted working code for the exploit. Was it irresponsible or not?

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  1. Nth post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ha!

  2. Re:what is the stink about it.... by f00zbll · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just noticed all my typos. good thing I don't proof read until it's too late :P

  3. mozilla by dextr0us · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, i downloaded mo, i was thinking about switching, and now i've officially decided. In case anyone needs any more coersion, this is your truth serum.

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    "Martha Stewart can lick my Scrotum......do i have a scrotum?" -- Sharon Osbourne
  4. BAD BAD BAD! Why? Now the script kiddies have it! by Newer+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can see it now.. Thousands of script kiddies licking their lips over THIS one! Sometimes there's a line between telling and showing...and they didn't just tell..they SHOWED the kiddies how to do it! This is really bad.....

  5. Mac too? by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Clearly, the code and descriptions for the bug are Windows-only. The question is, does a similar bug (vulnerability to cross-channel scripting attacks) exist in the Mac version? No mention of this on the forums. I would guess not, but I'm using Chimera until the bug is fixed just in case.

    PS. To all those people who think MS are evil and that I should be stoned for using Internet Explorer at all: remember that although it lacks tabbed browsing and popup-blocking, Explorer is in most ways superior to Mo and especially to Chimera. The most important difference is that IE runs faster, considering that I'm seeing typing lag as I write this post in Chimera. It's only a couple tenths of a second, but still quite annoying and totally unexcusable on a 700MHz machine. Also remember that IE mac is much better than IE windows for some reason (I've heard Office X is also much better than Office XP, but never tried either).

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    I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
  6. is this the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    new goat sex link... :)

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Talk about leaving no tracks by xyote · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or cylinders.

  9. Re:Of course it was irresponsible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, sir, are an idiot.

  10. It's not a bug by iamkrinkle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they are just beta testing thier new DRM!

  11. Re:Of course it was irresponsible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At this juncture I feel we should ban analogies from the Slashdot message boards forever.

    Thank you, you may return to your work now.