10-Day Patch Guarantee Not Mozilla's Policy

narramissic writes "Mozilla has officially backpedaled from a pledge made at Black Hat by the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within 'Ten ****ing Days.' On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10-day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.' And today, the open source browser maker issued a statement retracting the pledge."

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Synder would never succeed as a politician...

[Actually, I do RTFA]

On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10-day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.'

Upon hearing the news of this "flip-flopping," President Bush confidently stepped in for the Mozilla group and challenged the black hats to "bring it on."

Thank God...

[thanksforthecrabs]

...we still have companies like Google that can set good examples.

Re:So... eleven days?

[OnlyHalfEvil]

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10-day pledge is not Mozilla's policy

What is it with Windows being against quick patches?

Ten ****ing Days

[shish]

Are the censored four letters "work"?

Re:Ten ****ing Days

[datapharmer]

no.

Re:Ten ****ing Days

[Eighty7]

So they're including weekends too?

Habits of the geek kind

[Gazzonyx]

I don't smoke any more, but of my 'IT type' friends who still do (all in their early to mid 20's, mind you - 1 is 21 working on his masters), well... I spent the night working on my Solaris server trying to get NFS, LDAP, MySQL and Samba to play nicely with a BSD box, Mac, XP, and Gentoo inside segmented routed networks. Granted, I failed miserably, but I'm fairly sure my friends spent their night sharpening their skill set by getting high, eating munchies, and watching Sponge Bob's Square Pants before passing out at 10pm.

As an aside, it always seems the network and hardware geeks are the ones who smoke pot, and the database and BSD guys who like their vodka. The C/C++/Java programmers (this is my category, usually) are chain smokers - Marlboro Reds in a soft pack style, and caffeine junkies. How many of you have a Mountain Dew can that you're drinking next to an empty Mountain Dew can - and both are still cold to the touch? Yeah - all the programmers.

And the Mac guys generally seem to be clean cut replicas of Jeff Goldblum, for the most part. They're health conscience, and probably taking on a good number of sunshine units from those freakin' 45 inch MacBook Pro screens as they tend to be fans of irony. Mac guys also probably currently have a half gallon of water, in a jogging harness, on their desks right now... probably the cleanest desks on /. for that matter.
Oh, and I think the Amiga guys are in to acid or something - that's why they've been in their garages for the last 15 years hacking away. Poor guys don't even know their wife unplugged the monitor 3 years ago.

Re:Easy solution...

[Xero_One]

You can't be in a sane state of mind to think that posting to slashdot is a good idea. Woooooaaaahhh Duuuuuude!

That's totally... like, INSIGHTFUL!

Re:Ten fucking days is a long time...

[Hanners1979]

Most Geeks feel very lucky if they get laid once a month or so.

Is that an Earth month?

Re:It's Shaver

[loganrapp]

If Steve Jobs got blasted on Jaeger and said the next-gen iPhone would be made of cheese, dairy commodities would shoot through the roof.