A Security Bug In Mozilla - The Human Perspective

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 6, 2004 @06:35AM from the danger-of-success dept.

xslf writes "Alex Vincent, the reporter of the data-loss security bug 259708, writes about the behind the scene process of reporting it, casting light on the problems of dealing with security related bugs reported by the community, which isn't always aware of the security implications of the bugs reported. The issues with the FLOSS process shown in this bug might get worse, once more and more people use FLOSS and add to the process, without being full fledged coders, and rely on binary releases of software." (Note, you'll have to copy and paste that link to view the bug report, or click through from the linked story.)

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Re:3.5-year-old information disclosure and DoS by The+Bungi · 2004-10-06 10:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Well it's nice to see the MS shills get all righteous.
Awwww, am I getting your panties all in a bunch here? Too much reality maybe? I understand. It must be hard.
I am glad you are having so much fun slaying your straw men.
Go ahead and prove me wrong. Certainly that will give you some more credibility. Calling me a "shill" just doesn't do it, here.
knows exactly how much of a pain in the ass it is.
As much a "pain in the ass" as letting clueless users run as admins.