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SpreadFirefox Security Breached (again)
Kurt writes "The hugely popular SpreadFirefox project, a Firefox community marketing site, has recently fallen victim to a security breach in their TWiki software. This breach has forced the site to shutdown until October 19th. During this time, they will be performing a rebuild of the SpreadFirefox system, to hopefully curb more security breaches."
And soooo many people think that Mozilla is inherently safer, the people who develop it and revolve around it and so on the most saintly perfect people...
Wake up kids. They're as fallible as anyone at Microsoft and things like this will happen. Whether it is the browser or the websites hosting or the wikis, or whatever, mistakes are going to be made and patches and corrections will need to be done.
Microsoft isn't the only imperfect group of people out there. Everything is as vulnerable as the weakest link: the humans involved. Self-righteousness egged on by zealots can only weaken the link.
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Just proves that good coders make lousy SysAdmins. They should stop futzing around and get someone who actually knows how to run a secure infrastructure.