Re: video showing a PC being infected

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

you too can learn from my mistakes:

http://news.com.com/Hacker+backpedals+on+Firefox+zero-day/2100-7349_3-6122317.html?tag=nl

A hacker who claimed to have found a serious zero-day bug in Firefox
now says he was never able to exploit the supposed vulnerability to
hijack computers.

On Saturday, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi told attendees at
the ToorCon event in San Diego that Firefox is critically flawed in
the way it handles JavaScript. An attacker could commandeer a computer
running the open-source Web browser simply by crafting a Web page that
contains some malicious JavaScript code, they said. They displayed
some of that code.
Hackers' presentation

But Spiegelmock has now backpedaled on those claims. In a statement
provided to Mozilla, which coordinates development of Firefox,
Spiegelmock said that the computer code displayed during the
presentation does not fully compromise a PC running the browser.

On 10/3/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> From:                   "Les Bell" <lesbell () lesbell com au>
> Date sent:              Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:20:27 +1000
>
> > Use the "video downloader" plugin for Firefox.:
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ .
>
> Tried that, no joy.  (It may be that YouTube has specifically fixed the tech that
> allowed this.)
>
> ======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
> rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
> Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United
> States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine
> millimeter bullet.                                     - Dave Barry
> Dictionary of Information Security  www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150
> http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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