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Comment Re:He's right when he's driving in the UK (Score 3, Insightful) 144

His goal seems to be to make rock solid software with well-considered security of design and operation, and that's about his only goal. Compliance with the LSB is nice and all, but it's not something that keeps me up at night. Hell, it's not even in the top ten; and while DJB's software can be a little rough around the edges, I'm more than happy to use it because I have a high level of confidence in the design and implementation of his ideas.
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Vulnerability In Firefox Popup Blocker 100

cj writes in with news of a vulnerability in Firefox's stock popup blocker discovered by Michal Zalewski. The vulnerability can allow a malicious user to read files from an affected system. The attacker would "need to plant a predictably named file with exploit code on the target system. This sounds hard, but isn't," according to the article.

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