Mozilla Finds Flaw With Black Hat Video Stream

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."

Comments

Re:Keeping the Goatses on their Butts.

[Anonymous Coward]

http://goatse.fr/

Re:because it's stealing

[gutnor]

Can we stop arguing and just go calling it stealing. Same lost battle than Hacker is not a Cracker.

In any case, here you deprive somebody of the money he should have received, so it sort of makes sense. (well, unlike what people says, who really would pay once they have seen a movie ? Probably the same oldtime making the difference between stealing and copyright violation. The younger, they have trouble even accepting the fact that producing music, movies or GPL code has any value at all, if it is available for free as a torrent.)

Re:because it's stealing

[mike2R]

Ahh can we please stop calling it 'stealing'.

Can we please stop obsessing about this meaningless piece of sophistry? Stealing is a word, not a reference to the criminal law code in your particular jurisdiction. The usage is fine.

Re:Of course

[Runaway1956]

Let me try to apply some analytical reasoning here.

Black.

Hat.

Hackers.

WOW - BLACK HAT HACKERS!!!

There's no need to piss any of them off. In fact, it would probably have been better not to try sucking up to them. Just fly under the radar, avoid attention. Keep your frigging mouth tightly SHUT.

Analytical conclusion? Michael's a friggin' idiot.