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To: the anti-liberal

Wait until he starts praising Safari over how secure it is, but then fail to mention the hackers convention where they hacked it fairly quickly.


9 posted on 03/22/2009 9:54:16 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
> Wait until he starts praising Safari over how secure it is, but then fail to mention the hackers convention where they hacked it fairly quickly.

All the browsers were hacked, within minutes. You can stop trolling now.

Read about how the hacks were done, and you'll learn that speed of EXECUTION of the hack has nothing to do with the MONTHS of research that went into BUILDING the hack.

The fact that hacks run quickly when executed means nothing. This is true of ALL the hacks done on ALL the browsers, BTW. I'm not defending Safari, I'm trashing how these bogus contests are done.

Of course browsers have vulnerabilities. Why act surprised???

Silliest of all, it was a human-engineering hack -- it hacked the PRESUMED-CLUELESS OPERATOR, not the browser, not the OS. That contest, and all like them, are meaningless with regard to the security of the browser, or the OS. They serve no useful purpose, other than to generate trashy, sensationalist headlines.

14 posted on 03/22/2009 10:03:16 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Blue Highway
Wait until he starts praising Safari over how secure it is, but then fail to mention the hackers convention where they hacked it fairly quickly.

Why would I not mention the CanSecWest? I posted the story on FR three days ago.

I might mention that Charlie Miller said he had been working on that flaw in Safari for over a year.

How come you aren't mentioning that Internet Explorer 8 fell just a couple of minutes later?

16 posted on 03/22/2009 10:04:10 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Blue Highway
but then fail to mention the hackers convention where they hacked it fairly quickly.

"Quickly" is irrelevant when you spend months finding a vulnerability and crafting an exploit, and then just unleash it at the competition.

82 posted on 03/23/2009 2:33:55 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat (Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
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