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  Post #10 (permalink)   01-29-2006, 07:17 AM
marck
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http://www.cabo.dk/ who ( as i am told ) should be behind the hosting company "In an article today, CNN reports that a Danish company has found a bug in
Netscape's Communicator Suite which allows remote users to read any file
stored on the hard drive of a PC web server. CNNfn reports that they and PC
Magazine have verified the existence and nature of the bug. The Danish
company in question, Cabocomm, stated that they will not release details of
the bug until Netscape has fixed it, so I can't provide specifics.

While this is nothing new, one aspect struck me as unusual. The Danish
company further stated that Netscape's reward of $1000 and a t-shirt is
"insultingly low" considering the severity of the bug. They have stated
that they will provide Netscape with the specifics of the bug if and only if
1) Netscape provides "reasonable compensation", or 2) Netscape sends a
representative to Denmark to collect the bug details. In other words, until
Netscape pays up, they don't get their bug.
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