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A Security Bug In Mozilla - The Human Perspective

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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  1. WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.

    This FP brought to y ou by the CLIT.

  2. My backpack's got jets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kiss my grits! FP like sparkling wine!

  3. Re:I tried to RTFA by d_jedi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is this modded redundant? Geez.. someone's got an itchy mod finger today..

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  4. Re:My experience reporting bugs.. by NanoGator · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Wait a sec, you're bitching that they won't pay you to work for them, when you don't pay them for thier product?

    Holy hypocrisy..."


    That's not hypocritical. I didn't buy my company's product at my previous job. Now, if you're saying that there's no income so he shouldn't be asking for money, this is true and I agree with you. It's not a sign of a hypocrite, though.

    In short, I'm only nitpicking the hypocrite comment, I'm not attempting to shoot down your whole point.

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