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Mozilla Finds Flaw With Black Hat Video Stream

Posted by timothy on from the fair-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla web security researcher Michael Coates found a flaw in Black Hat's paid video feed. The flaw allowed him to watch a live feed of the conference for free instead of the $395 a head to connect. Unlike many presenters at Black Hat, Michael responsibly disclosed the flaw to organizers, who quickly fixed the issue."

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  1. Re:Prisoner's Dilemma? by johnhp · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if there's one thing attendees of Black Hat respect, it's intellectual property... oh wait. Ordinarily I'd say pirating video streams is morally questionable, but hacking access to the video stream of a security conference is so poetic that I refuse to believe it could be evil.