Firefox site hacked again

For the second time in three months, a security breach has shut down the marketing website used to promote the Firefox browser. Late Monday, members of the Spread Firefox community were notified that their Spread Firefox site had been hit by attackers looking to exploit a bug in the TWiki collaboration software, which had been running on the server.

The Mozilla Foundation does not believe that any sensitive information was compromised in the attack, but it is encouraging the approximately 100,000 Spread Firefox members to reset their passwords. "With these things it's hard to determine the exact nature of what happened," said Mike Schroepfer, director of engineering with the Foundation's Mozilla subsidiary.

Like when you ignorantly claimed that all open source cryptographic systems had been cracked.

I never claimed all open source crypto systems had been cracked. I jokingly asked if most hadn't been, big difference. Leave it to you to twist it into a lie.

And when you claimed that Microsoft.com had never been hacked.

MSN Korea is not Microsoft.com. Is that what you're trying to claim? Probably, since it would another one of your lies.

And how you insisted that closed source was secure because nobody could see the source code.

Obscurity is a level of security, your brainwashing aside. Even Linus Torvalds is on record admitting this. Don't believe me, believe him.

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ROFL!

Just today I spent a good deal of time with discostu in a heated *technical* discussion.

Hilarious! You mean the one where you got exposed as a fraud yet again? I think the other poster said quote "more LIES from you. Might as well end it since all you can do is lie and insult."

Seems I'm not the only one who can see right through your transparent and endless BS.

You are a quick & accurate judge of character, zeugma. ;o)

Thanks. I've been here a while :-)

As another Freeper pointed out, Brass Buzzard is a strange denizen. He doesn't speak to any conservative issues and is always whoring for Redmond.

That was probably me. I occasionally run GE's posting history through a few scripts to demonstrate the fact that he is the very definition of troll. You can go through a thousand posts of his without him posting anything but his standard anti-opensource whoring except maybe one sports-related thread or something else unoffensive politically.

Can you imagine being that single minded for as many years as he has been posting here? I'd call it pathological, but I only play a doctor on TV.

Simply takes a lot of time to counter all the propoganda being constantly posted by N3wbie and shadowman. They maintain ping lists of endless propoganda, faithfully bringing us all the latest BS from places like blogs and all their favorite foreign websites.

If my cold slaps of reality and starch conservatism bother you, you're welcome to try to factually debate, and provide counter links to the countless ones I provide. But generally all I ever get is name calling and insults, just as we see here.

I never claimed all open source crypto systems had been cracked.

Liar.

MSN Korea is not Microsoft.com.

You're lying again.

Obscurity is a level of security

Poor misguided fool. If obscurity offered any security at all, Microsoft wouldn't be getting its dumb butt owned every six ways 'til Sunday.

But you go right on thinking you're right, sport.

But just remember: we're not laughing with you; we are laughing at you.

Liar.

Would be you. I jokingly asked if most hadn't been cracked, big difference.

You're lying again.

MSN Korea isn't Microsoft.com, whether you want to keep hallucinating it is or not.

If obscurity offered any security at all, Microsoft wouldn't be getting its dumb butt owned every six ways 'til Sunday.

ROFL, look at the title of this thread, and all the other recent ones - open sores are what are getting cracked, and we're talking multiple vendor sites in the last few months.

Maybe you should go look over your code some more before more crackers beat you to the holes, LOL.

O.K. folks, here's my latest periodic Golden_Eagle thread watch. (otherwise known as the "Brass Buzzard" by those subjected to his continual ranting.) What you see below represents 2000 posts in 248 threads here on FreeRepublic reaching all the way back to 03/14/2005. Does anyone see a pattern here? You have to look really hard for any thread that doesn't fit his rabit anti-open source software rants. The only exceptions that I've noticed after a casual perusal are a couple concerned with China. I haven't bothered to read them, but am sure he was able to interject his johnny-one-note theme on those threads too.

Why do this? Well it really doesn't take much time at all to assemble this. Saving 20 pages from the user posting history is the most time consuming part. Weeding duplicates and tallying totals is the work of a few standard unix utilities. I just hope I didn't fat-finger any commands :-) The main reason I post this is to point out the incredibly trollish behavior of the Buzzard. He comes to FreeRepublic, which is a conservative community for one single purpose - to attack any statement supporting open source software. He has no other apparent interests. Consider everything that has happened in both this country and the world in the past few years, and then consider what subjects you, the participants here on FreeRepublic have posted on. Could you imagine being so incredibly single minded that you don't voice opinions on any other topic? For years?

This, my friends is a textbook definition of a disruptor and troll. Consider that when you see him ranting and accusing people of being communists for not properly volunteering to sacrifice their firstborn son on microsoft's mighty altar.

125 Cuba to switch computers to Linux, dumping Windows
98 Red Flag (China) flying over LinuxWorld Expo
95 Open Source Smack Down (Backroomed for a reason. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.)
68 Is Linux For Losers?
59 Novell expects to sell 250,000 units of new Linux Desktop - Argentina
48 Novell: Vista will drive users to Linux
48 Political hackers deface Novell SUSE sites
44 Microsoft Vs Unix: Its a tie for the first time
43 Firefox's 'retreat' ensures Microsoft excels
39 Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument (FOX Editorial)
38 Symantec: Mozilla browsers more vulnerable than IE
38 Wall Street Journal - Apple Eyes Shifting Macintosh Line To Intel Chips
36 Vista's licensing speeds NSW govt move to Linux desktops
36 Will Linux Benefit from Microsoft's SNAFU in Massachusetts?
34 IBM Woos the World's Geeks
34 The Many Faces of Linux
33 China throws down gauntlet to USA Inc
33 10 Days as a Linux User: A GNU Perspective on things
31 Microsoft plans to outsource more, says ex-worker [Moving 1,000+ jobs to China]
31 GPL Sued For "Software Price Fixing"
26 Massachusetts Blasted Over Open-Source Switch
26 Linux thrives in left-leaning Kerala
26 Unpatched Firefox flaw may expose users
23 Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
20 Microsoft invests even more in China
20 Microsoft warns of unpatched IE flaw
20 Mac OS on Intel x86 - CONFIRMED
19 Is Microsoft Running Scared of OpenDocument?
19 Microsoft Internet Explorer "window()" Denial of Service Weakness
19 GOOGLE & SUN OFFICE: THE WORLD CHANGES THIS WEEK
18 Microsoft bans 'democracy' for China web users
18 The Open Source Heretic
15 Novell server hacked, used to scan for vulnerable computers
15 You are now entering an O'Gara-free zone
15 Torvalds' Baby Comes of age
14 Microsoft loses Excel patent case
14 Dell apologizes for sales rep's Red-China-scare (anti-Lenovo e-mail)
14 Firefox site hacked again
14 Chinas Charge: We ignore Chinas acquisitions strategy at our peril.
13 Trojan rides in on unpatched Office flaw
13 CIO Jury: Businesses give open source a reality check
13 IBM Gives it to SCO (Code Turnover)
12 Banks eye bootable Linux CDs
12 Apple to switch to Intel's PC chips~~ New chips will allow PC maker to lower prices
12 Intel to cut Linux out of the content market ~~ Eastfork and Microsoft...what's going on?
11 China's Linux industry considers mega-merger
11 Internet Security Takes a Hit (Chinese hackers may have cracked encryption)
11 I Just Installed Linux and... (VANITY)
10 MS issues final software update for Win2K
10 Linux lags Windows in new security report
10 IBM, Red Hat Push Linux in Emerging Markets (March of the penguins ;)
10 Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do
9 Unocal meeting ends, bidding war expected
9 What the Apple Plan To Switch to Intel Chips Means for Consumers
9 No One Gets Out Alive!
9 Campaign to save Visual Basic 6 gathers support (Rapid obsolescence...of workforce?)
9 10 Reasons Why You Should Adopt LINUX
9 Should Linux sue SCO?
9 Open source battles Microsoft in Ukraine
9 Three Reasons (At Least) Why Mac Users Need to Cool the Smugness and Condescension
8 Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem ~~ This software movement is branching ....
8 Microsoft fixes serious Windows flaws
7 The Bigger They Are...
7 Windows Vista Product Editions Revealed (Microsoft Milks the market)
7 Microsoft targets Apache Web server
7 IBM to Cut Up to 13,000 Jobs, Take Charge
7 Microsoft's Gates issues warning cry
7 Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable in Communication with Government
7 Windows 2000 users to miss out on IE 7
6 China Marks 56 Years of Communist Rule
6 SCO consultant: no copyright infringement in linux
6 Apple explores use of Intel chips - report
6 In a Reverse, Microsoft Says It Supports Gay Rights Bill
6 Munich chooses two local Linux suppliers
5 Massachusetts moves ahead sans Microsoft
5 Linux 40 percent cheaper than Windows, exclaims IBM
5 Islam Hardliner Wins Iranian Election
5 Vietnam, China Have Highest Software Piracy Rate in Asia: Report
5 IBM Creating An Army Of Evangelists
5 Microsoft Readies Its Antivirus App
5 Michael Dell sinks $100M into Red Hat
5 Open Source Release For Sun's App Server
4 Microsoft to double Indian centers staff
4 Group: Yahoo Helped China Jail Journalist
4 Microsoft sees 3 'critical' Windows security flaws
4 AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel
4 The slow road to Windows XP
4 Red Hat Spins Off Fedora Project
4 The Web: Attack of the computer zombies
4 Vigilante hackers use Old West tactics for cyberspace justice
4 Software Piracy Remains Widespread
4 SCO Missing 16,000 Documents (papershredders at sco working overtime)
4 China to become world biggest auto making center
4 Trojan rides in on unpatched Office flaw
4 Novell hits back at SCO in Unix dispute ~~
4 Red Hat holes less severe than Windows - study
4 OpenOffice 2.0 Beta Review
4 Apple Intel move 'could confuse' ~~ but may allow entry into new home markets
4 Apple to switch to Intel chips: WSJ
4 Confirmed: Apple WILL use Intel chips in 2006
4 Sly Intel CEO warns that Apple is the safer computer buy
3 Microsoft Windows Officially Broken
3 Putting off childbirth defies nature, claim doctors
3 New Internet worm affects Windows users - Trend Micro
3 Unhappiness drives open source adoption
3 First views of Windows Vista
3 Cash-rich China is poised to shop
3 China, Israel discuss expanding defense ties
3 Security breach could expose 40M to fraud (40 million credit cards captured by computer virus)
3 Outsourcing, Layoffs, And No Stock Options?
3 China goes undercover to sway opinion on internet
3 How linux could overthrow Microsoft
3 Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly
3 Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality
3 Free software's replacements for desktop applications
3 EU plan could put open sourcers in court
3 Vienna to softly embrace Linux
3 Apple's Switch to Intel: The Ultimate Power Move?
3 IBM's chip shift to blunt Apple effect
3 IBM unsheathes Cell blade server
2 EU Wants Shared Control of Internet
2 Bill Gates Donates $40 Million To High School
2 Infected Files Found on Mozilla Site (Korean Linux binaries infected - oh, my!)
2 HELP! I've Been Micro-Hosed
2 MSM PCs under attack - CNN, NYT, ABCNEWS - It's not Zotob; spreading fast! Update virus defs NOW!
2 Sun boots Solaris x86 on Xen
2 Can America Compete?
2 IBM Wins $850M Settlement From Microsoft
2 ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
2 LAMP made easy with XAMPP
2 Enter Avalanche: P2P filesharing from Microsoft
2 Microsoft preps 'critical' Windows patch
2 Something's Amiss in the Linux Community
2 Ballmer: While Apple And Google Get The Glitz, We Get The Customers
2 Intel-Apple coupling could woo Hollywood
2 Brave US terrorist hunters end stand off against BitTorrent web site
2 Microsoft, Tata Extend Their Telecom Outsourcing Partnership
2 Firefox Develops Security Holes
2 The Ideological War Over Intellectual Property
2 Microsoft, Protecting us yet again
2 IBM Breaks Own Supercomputer Record: 133 Trillion instructions per second.
2 Why Novell's internal migration to Linux desktops is a landmark story
2 Chinese manufacturer offers iPod mini knockoff
2 Forbes - Apple To Gain PC Market Share Over Next 2-3 Years
2 FireFox IDN patch released
2 Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store
2 A first look at Apple's Intel Mac (with photos)
2 MSN Korea is hacked (MSN is owned)
2 Hack iis6 contest underway..
2 Firefox: 50 Million Downloads -- Congrats!!
2 SCO denied motion to change IBM case again
1 Three Billion New Capitalists
1 Despite admiration for Gates, China poses stiff test for Microsoft
1 Internet Explorer more Secure than Mozilla products
1 IE flaw puts Windows XP SP2 at risk
1 Taiwan Opposition Shoots Down Arms Package
1 No Microsoft Patches This Month After All
1 Free as in... Vista?
1 China launching constant attacks on military networks
1 5 US church leaders arrested in China
1 Microsoft Internet Explorer "Msdds.dll" Remote Code Execution (Affects XP SP2, etc.)
1 Worm strikes down Windows 2000 systems
1 IBM helps Firefox reach disabled
1 Massive Linux handout set for French schools
1 Making It In China
1 IBM updates Linux desktop with Firefox support
1 Novell to SCO Group: Drop Dead
1 Mozilla Foundation forms for-profit corporation
1 Microsoft steps up piracy fight
1 U.S. Layoffs Surge to 17-Month High
1 China Tells Congress To Back Off Businesses
1 China Criticizes U.S. Actions on Unocal Bid
1 THE RAPID GROWTH & MODERNIZATION OF THE RED CHINESE NAVY
1 Missile Technology Plant Moved to China (JDAM smart-bombs)
1 Beijing Earmarks $40 Billion to Get in Olympic Shape
1 America Supports You. mil - Check out the web site GW mentioned tonight in his speech
1 China flexes its economic and military muscles
1 Iran's Oil Reserves Expected To Outlive Saudi Arabia's
1 Microsoft Takes Sides in DVD-Format War
1 China supplies arms to Iran, Sudan (China, the mother of autocracy)
1 Mozilla Korea Hacked..
1 West Coast group to buy Penguins
1 Tropical Storm Arlene Moves Into Gulf Coast
1 $80bn Google takes top media spot
1 Apple, Apple, Apple...Whatever Does It Mean?
1 Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
1 Bagle variants punch, punch and punch again
1 Linux vs Microsoft XP: Optimizations Make Linux the Killer Desktop
1 Why people are getting upset with illegal immigrants
1 New' BitTorrent forces anti-piracy regroup
1 U.S., China Clash Again Over Tech (Unbelievable Chinese Demands)
1 A Microsoft-Red Hat warming trend?
1 Who wants a strong China?
1 MS Taps Bloggers to Promote Longhorn
1 Will China's Lust for Power Bring War to America?
1 Ballmer: Microsoft Will Virtualize Linux
1 How Linux Saved Microsoft
1 Shutting Down the Highway to Internet Hell
1 Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
1 Tech Companies Back EU in Microsoft Fight
1 Inside Report: Jeb For Veep?
1 Burst.com, Microsoft reach tentative deal
1 Google.com: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
1 Avnet, Novell Team On Linux Channel Program
1 Linux and VMware add up for Connecticut nonprofit
1 Linux Goes Mainstream ~~ From the Financial Press....
1 #@%^&*##* WINDOWS UPDATE
1 New Zealand's schools to get open source for less
1 Admin Account Lost Permissions: HELP! (Tech Vanity)
1 Latest IBM buy will enhance virtualization toolset
1 FreeSBIE: A FreeBSD live CD
1 Apple lands four spots in TOP500 list
1 The Linux iPod
1 Dell Says Hed Sell Apples Mac OS
1 I'm desperate for help... (Computer/AOL issues)
1 Apple releases Security update for OSX.3.9... This is not for Tiger.
1 Firefox 1.0.2 Released
1 China Marks 56 Years of Communist Rule
1 Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument (FOX Editorial)
1 Novell server hacked, used to scan for vulnerable computers
1 Massachusetts Blasted Over Open-Source Switch
1 China's Linux industry considers mega-merger
1 IBM Woos the World's Geeks
1 Red Flag (China) flying over LinuxWorld Expo
1 Dell apologizes for sales rep's Red-China-scare (anti-Lenovo e-mail)
1 Vigilante hackers use Old West tactics for cyberspace justice
1 Cuba to switch computers to Linux, dumping Windows
1 IBM Creating An Army Of Evangelists
1 U.S., China Clash Again Over Tech (Unbelievable Chinese Demands)
1 Munich chooses two local Linux suppliers
1 Internet Security Takes a Hit (Chinese hackers may have cracked encryption)
1 Linux thrives in left-leaning Kerala
1 Firefox site hacked again
1 Political hackers deface Novell SUSE sites
1 Open Source Smack Down (Backroomed for a reason. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.)

You didn't say you were a hardcore conservative, schmuck. You said you were a (and I quote) "starch conservative."

Look up "starch" in the dictionary. Maybe then you'll appreciate the absurdity of your statement.

But hey...if you want to be a naturally-abundant carbohydrate and stiffen cloth...well, geez...live the dream, man.

P.S. -- Microsoft still sold out to the Communist Chinese. You just cannot deny it, sport.

I am guessing that there are other freepers who only post to a specific type of thread (such as religion) and this does not make them trolls. Sure, I agree that it is highly unusual to be part of a forum like this and only post to the OSS threads, but we don't know if that's where his only interests lie. His bio says here's been here since 1999 so I would tend to cut him a bit of slack before calling him a "troll". There could be any number of reasons why he chooses to post to the "tech" pings only and it really is not our business to question it. If he was indeed a troll, he would have been bounced out of here 6 years ago.

Maybe this is the only subject he feels strongly enough to comment on. I've lurked over at LGF for almost 2 years now and still have never registered, so it is possible to just read the threads and not comment on them. Heck, I even browsed Free Republic for almost a year before I joined. Anything's possible.

It would be nice if he could explain this behavior but he really doesn't have to, that's his personal business and choice.

Again, I do agree with you that it is a bit ... ummm ... strange.

Like I already said, I'm just countering the inordinate amount of propoganda that comes from n3wbie and shadowman. They have freaking ping lists of daily BS and no one questions their motives? BTW, I rarely commmented on these topics at all till those losers showed up. Go back in my history far enough and you'll see, as usual, I'm exactly correct.

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