Firefox “Unfixable Flaw” a Hoax

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

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 websites discussing this supposed flaw over the weekend.