Submitted by 86944 in Tech

TL;DR courtesy of a reddit user.

Short story, some agency found a bug from a Mozilla app, used that bug to be able to keep the phone from locking up and they were able to make as many guesses of the pass code as needed until the phone unlocked.... Once unlocked the police gained no new information and the whole thing cost $900,000. NINE HUNDRED FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS...... AND THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!

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celebratedrecluse wrote

typical Mozilla.

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throwaway wrote

How is this typical Mozilla? As far as I'm aware, they're not too bad at keeping their shit secure.

The real question should be, "why can an unsafe installed app result in complete system takeover"? Shouldn't that shit be isolated?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Mozilla is just famously disorganized, and their browsers do have various vulnerabilities which are patched regularly. I find firefox to be, while useful as a chrome-universe analog, kind of clunky and bloated.

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