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1995-09-22 - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Message Hash: fa6cf805c07bd93490d826f82f37f706748ab97a9663b3ed0334a85ca395c6ce
Message ID: <199509221243.IAA03781@frankenstein.piermont.com>
Reply To: <43tpv8$rom@tera.mcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 12:43:45 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 05:43:45 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 05:43:45 PDT
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
In-Reply-To: <43tpv8$rom@tera.mcom.com>
Message-ID: <199509221243.IAA03781@frankenstein.piermont.com>
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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

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