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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."
Or is Mozilla just going to end up being like Microsoft releasing updates every six months or when a bug makes the headlines at Slashdot fifteen times with different articles from different outlets that they're actually shamed into producing a secure browser which is a strong alternative to IE?
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."
In before Bush declares Mozilla to be a terrorist organization and launches a war of aggression against it.
Well, you did infer that he flip flops a lot...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
They might need to get rid of Window Snyder, the mozilla security boss, just to make sure...
(BTW, in case you're wondering, Window Snyder most definitely wasn't hired for her looks)
Nice troll. Nice. You used the standard "woe is me - the Linux geeks are yelling" move... tied it to Firefox... and then tossed in the "quality of closed source" zinger. Kudos. Clean opening... just enough body... and a little kick on the finish; a fine trolling vinaigrette.