Nadim Kobeissi: > > On 2013-08-07, at 12:44 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bbrewer: >>> "We're understaffed, so we tend to pick the few things we might >>> accomplish and writing such advisory emails is weird unless there is an >>> exceptional event. Firefox bugs and corresponding updates are not >>> exceptional events. :(" >>> >>> Pardon me, >>> But it does seem that this one was. >>> >>> No? >> >> Yeah, this was such a case - a month ago, we didn't know it was such a >> case - no one did, not even Mozilla. > > That's funny — didn't Mozilla issue a security advisory for it a month ago? > That would imply that they actually did know that it was such a case. >
The exploit is the exceptional event. Roger just covered this with exceptional clarity. Al - did Mozilla know it was being exploited in the wild, a month ago? Was there a known difference at the time between this bug and say, the others which were fixed in the ESR17 release cycle? All the best, Jacob -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
