Firefox “Unfixable Flaw” A Hoax

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

If you can’t trust a hacker, who can you trust? Last weekend, one of the speakers at the Toorcon security conference said he and a partner had found an unfixable Firefox flaw… they even had video of it being exploited. Well, they came clean today, and admitted it was all a hoax.

“The main purpose of our talk was to be humorous,” admitted Mischa Spiegelmock, in a statement made through Mozilla.org this afternoon. In an attempt to distance himself from his colleague, Andrew Wbeelsoi, Spiegelmock added today, “I do not have 30 undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities, nor did I ever make this claim. I have no undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities. The person who was speaking with me made this claim, and I honestly have no idea if he has them or not.” [Source: BetaNews]

We Say: If you check Andrew Wbeelsoi’s bio on the Toorcon site, it says “Andrew Wbeelsoi ruins things on the Internet professionally.” Whether or not that’s true, he sure stirs things up, because I saw a lot of Web sites discussing this supposed flaw over the weekend.

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