Former MS Security Strategist Joins Mozilla 248
Handset writes "Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. eweek.com reports that Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, will spearhead Mozilla's security strategy and improve its communications with external hackers and bug finders."
As long as she replaces the useless Asa Dotzler (Score:0, Interesting)
Re:First Of All, Congrats (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:0, Interesting)
He admits it himself, he just doesn't accept responsibility (as supposed head of QA) or say what he did/will do to change things like that happening again. Nor has he said (what happened to "open" source and meritocracy) who was responsible for not implementing the unit test that would have caught it - or what managerial changes have been made to ensure that unit tests get properly written. He is simply terrible at QA and much better at self promotion and marketing gimmicks.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/00812
Obligatory Overload (Score:2, Interesting)
Second Mozilla nabs her. Ironic No.
Microsft's Window jumps ship to Firefox.......(of all the headlines we mangle here this one's begging for it.)
The comedic possibilities are overwhelming. But here is the strangest one. Mozilla supplies her with 3 workstations. For compatability reasons she's gonnan need a Mac, a Linux, and a Windows box.
wait for it.
But now they are all window's machines. Gasp, This woman is dangerous and must be stopped.
In all seriousness, If she had anything to do with the sp2 patches, she is my new personal hero.
Welcome to the light. Don't be afraid. No, no, we promise, it's definately not open sores, I don't care what those dicks in the cafeteria said.
O.K maybe not in all seriousness.
Did your momma give you that name?!? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I call bullshit! (Score:0, Interesting)
ANSWER:
He admitted to a security regression (if you look at news sites around that time it was a huge story anyway, but I can't be responsible for your laziness).
Do you think that security regressions are acceptable for software as widely used as Firefox?
Do you think that there should be measures in place to prevent security regressions occurring?
Do you think that after endandering the security of millions of users through mismanagement (remember this was a KNOWN hole) people are entitled to know what is in place to prevent it happening again?
Do you think that open source is a good idea? Why should coders names be public and testers names not?
Do you think the head of QA should answer such questions or delete them from his blog?
This is the sort of mistake which Microsoft were making all the time about 4 or 5 years ago, and keep making today (though not as much) - see the recent patch regression (though in fairness that was limited to XPSP1). Slashdotters rightly mocked and disrespected M$ for it. Why should it be different with Mozilla?
Please obtain a clue. KTHXBYE.