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Firefox Exploit Adds Fuel to Browser Security Feud
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com is reporting that a fairly nasty exploit has been released for a security hole that Firefox patched just yesterday. This is sure to add fuel to the ongoing heated debate over whether Mozilla is any safer the Internet Explorer." From the article: "This is not your run-of-the-mill proof of concept exploit code. It appears to be quite comprehensive, and would allow any attacker to use it with only slight modifications. According to the advisory, the code is designed to be embedded in a Web site so that anyone computer visiting the evil site with Firefox or Netscape would open up a line of communication with another Internet address of the attacker's choice, effectively letting the bad guys control the victim computer from afar."
Firefox is finally catching up with the market leader! Woo!
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Also on the plus side, the Washington Post link crashes my IE, so I can't even read the anti-Firefox news. Score another for Mozilla!.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
...because we all know that no self-respecting hacker would attack a friend of open-source such as FireFox. These exploit discoveries are being secretly funded by Microsoft!
No... because it's hideously expensive to print 10lb newspapers every day.
Let's see them attack my text-based browser!
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot.
I'm going to rip Linux out of all my boxes, install WinXP SP2, and do all of my web surfing on IE with ActiveX enabled, just to be safe!
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
You talk as if you need it ;-)
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
I'd like to propose a new game here on Slashdot, called "Six Degrees of Microsoft." The objective is to relate *any* story, from browser exploits, to RFID tags, to new features on Google maps back to some oversight, corruption, or other evil perpetrated by Microsoft.
Understand, I'm not even saying I necessarily disagree with the parent post, I just think that every Slashdot post in the future should have at least one response titled "Six Degrees of Microsoft." Firefox/IE posts are easy, but "GBA SP Updated with Brighter Backlit Screen" might be a bit more of a challenge.
Good luck...
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.