Anything Goes Discussions

So the two idiots that put on a demonstration of a zero day exploit say it was all a joke. Maybe in their on little minds, but this presentation lead to many articles and media attention. Window Snyder the Chief of Mozilla Security states:

Mr. Spiegelmock admitted to the company that the presentation was meant to be humorous, and that he and Mr. Wbeelsoi had not actually achieved remote execution with the exploit code demonstrated at the show.

At the same time Snyder says that her team spent two days working on the problem.

Mozilla security researchers spent most of Sunday and Monday scrambling to determine whether exploit code revealed during a presentation by hackers Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi at Toorcon over the weekend could allow someone to execute malicious code through a memory corruption attack on Firefox. Source: Mozilla Duped by Hacker’s ‘Humorous’ Presentation – Yahoo! News

So, as you can see their joke costs a company time in lost labor and effort which Mozilla should sue these two hackers for in damages. Mr. Spiegelmock in fact works for blogging-software maker Six Apart which stated:

Spiegelmock will not be terminated for his actions. “We all make mistakes,”

Yes, we all make mistakes, but not in front of billions of people around the world, cause major media coverage and cost 2 days lost labor to a major company. “Gee, I’m sorry mom I just wiped out the bank accounts of everyone at Black Hat Bank. I’m sorry that you are going to spend a lot of time and effort to fix the problem. My Bad….”

That doesn’t cut it with me, I think Six Apart should at the minimum suspend him without pay for the same amount of time that Mozilla spent on researching the hoax. If I owned the company he worked at, I would have fired him immediately. Jokes like this are not humorous.

That’s what I think….What about you?