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Offline Clive

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Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« on: June 19, 2008, 13:00 »
Less than one day after its launch, a vulnerability was found in Firefox 3.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39436580,00.htm


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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 21:28 »
It feels fishy that they had access to the beta versions for months and they just release this zero day flaw the day after omega release.

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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 22:22 »
It's probably something the average user would not be affected by in a million years.
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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 23:06 »
You just have to wonder what part the Evil Empire played in all this.   ':|

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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2008, 16:04 »
so whats the flaw?

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Re: Firefox 3 suffers its first flaw
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2008, 16:22 »
I don't think that's been disclosed, Baz, for security.   ;D
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