http://mozillalinks.org/2007/04/short-takes-for-april-22-29-2007/ Your source for Mozilla news, tips, reviews, and more. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mozillalinks.org/2007/04/short-takes-for-april-22-29-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-33194 Apple patches QuickTime flaw : Mozilla Links Fri, 04 May 2007 18:02:07 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/04/short-takes/#comment-33194 [...] has released an update for QuickTime that patches a critical security flaw discovered last week during the hack-a-Mac challenge, a contest that awarded MacBooks to hackers that broke into [...] [...] has released an update for QuickTime that patches a critical security flaw discovered last week during the hack-a-Mac challenge, a contest that awarded MacBooks to hackers that broke into [...]

]]> http://mozillalinks.org/2007/04/short-takes-for-april-22-29-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-32197 Percy Cabello Tue, 01 May 2007 02:25:37 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/04/short-takes/#comment-32197 Christian, I as well don't have enough information to tell whether Java or QuickTime is more used. My feeling is that it's about 50/50 and considering it's far easier to disable Java I think the workaround is reasonable. I may be wrong of course. Christian, I as well don’t have enough information to tell whether Java or QuickTime is more used. My feeling is that it’s about 50/50 and considering it’s far easier to disable Java I think the workaround is reasonable. I may be wrong of course.

]]> http://mozillalinks.org/2007/04/short-takes-for-april-22-29-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-32169 Christian Jones Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:49:30 +0000 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/04/short-takes/#comment-32169 Regarding the QuickTime+Java vulnerability (and I'm really not trying to troll her), wouldn't it make more sense to disable the QuickTime plugin? A quick scan of http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ seems to show that it's more difficult to do so, but I think it's likely more people depend on their browser supporting Java than QuickTime. (I may very well be wrong.) Regarding the QuickTime+Java vulnerability (and I’m really not trying to troll her), wouldn’t it make more sense to disable the QuickTime plugin? A quick scan of http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ seems to show that it’s more difficult to do so, but I think it’s likely more people depend on their browser supporting Java than QuickTime. (I may very well be wrong.)

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