[39878] in Cypherpunks
Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Sep 22 08:47:37 1995
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Sep 1995 07:52:08 GMT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:43:25 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jeff Weinstein writes:
> OK, Perry was right, and it was wrong of me to argue with him based
> only on the code that I have personally seen. As we have already
> determined, I have not reviewed every line of code in netscape.
>
> Not that I want to divert attention away from netscape(OK, maybe I
> do :-) ), but does this bug exist in any other common browser?
Probably in Mosaic, though not necessarily in the same place. Its a
case of the same programmers making the same mistakes over and over
again.
I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I
fear Java a great deal.
Perry
