Mozilla Finds Flaw With Black Hat Video Stream

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Posted by timothy on Monday August 02 2010, @01:55AM
from the fair-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla web security researcher Michael Coates found a flaw in Black Hat's paid video feed. The flaw allowed him to watch a live feed of the conference for free instead of the $395 a head to connect. Unlike many presenters at Black Hat, Michael responsibly disclosed the flaw to organizers, who quickly fixed the issue."

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in soviet rusia (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @02:08AM (#33107404)

Applications find bugs on black hats.

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Re:Of course (Score:3, Funny)

by Volante3192 (953645) writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @02:29AM (#33107482)

I think the "unlike" part of this story is that the issue was fixed rather than sat on for months.

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Re:Prisoner's Dilemma? (Score:5, Funny)

by johnhp (1807490) writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @02:32AM (#33107498)

And if there's one thing attendees of Black Hat respect, it's intellectual property... oh wait. Ordinarily I'd say pirating video streams is morally questionable, but hacking access to the video stream of a security conference is so poetic that I refuse to believe it could be evil.

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Re:responsibility (Score:5, Funny)

by Linker3000 (626634) writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @04:36AM (#33107990) Journal

If the cost of attendance and video streaming is worrying you, why not just persuade your local ATM to provide the cash for you. I believe there was a presentation about this..but then things get recursive...

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Re:because it's stealing (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @04:49AM (#33108030)

In any case, here you deprive somebody of the money he should have received,

Agreed, some people deserve money just because!

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Obv (Score:3, Funny)

by Sockatume (732728) writes: on Monday August 02 2010, @05:25AM (#33108150) Homepage

In Soviet Russia, Mozilla finds security flaw in Black Hat!

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in soviet rusia (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Of course (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Prisoner's Dilemma? (Score:5, Funny)

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Obv (Score:3, Funny)

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