Netscape Engineers Are Weenies??

[jimbo]

This is an excerpt from an article about a Security Flaw in NT 4 and IIS located at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2550735,00.html


However, the file is part of the default installation of Web servers using NT 4.0 and Microsoft's Internet Information Service software, making it fairly common. "It breaks the absolute wall between Web sites on a shared server," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center. "But you can't see anything that you're not authorized to by the access controllers."

By far the most interesting aspect of the flawed DLL is that it also contained a phrase deriding Netscape engineers.

Reports focused on a phrase -- "!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN" -- or the backwards spelling of "Netscape engineers are weenies!" But NTBugTraq's Cooper and Microsoft both stressed that the phrase is not a password but a cypher key used to scramble the address of Web pages requested by users.

Reading that article made me dislike MSFT even more than I already do...

[Lori]

While you'll most likely never find me standing in Gates corner I do have to say that I have yet to encounter a version of Netscape that I cared to use (unless absolutely necessay of course), therefore I run IE. If there was a viable option to either IE or Netscape I'd do that simply to not support either of them. There's a lot of new browsers out there but so far I have yet to find another that seems across the board compatable. :(

Netscape's latest release (Netscape 6 PR1) isn't even close to working. I couldn't get it off my system fast enough![nbsp][nbsp]Even though right now the ratings for both IE 5.5 beta and Netscape 6 PR1 are seemingly looking alike (not many people are happy with either), I have to think like usual that MS will get it together quicker than the other.

I watched the 11 o'clock news and heard what MS did. It was small consolation to me that all they did was fire the idiot for pulling a stunt like that. It doesn't surprise me tho. I can only assume that in the future we are to hear yet more about things like this.[nbsp][nbsp]I also won't be surprised to find out that Netscape has/is also pulling the same kind of stunts.

It's a sad state of affairs for sure, but growth and improvement aren't likely to stop anytime soon. Now if those that wish to improve could just take a class in ethics before programing I think we'd all be better off.
[This message has been edited by Lori (edited 04-15-00@03:04 am)]

[Drew]

Exactly, Lori... the next paragraph in that article:
"'Netscape engineers are weenies!' was a dumb thing to put in there," Cooper said. "But if we took a dictionary cracker and went over Sun's code, we would find the same sorts of things." Not that I'm sticking up for them... :)

Drew

[Tatu]

LOL! I read this in yesterday's newspaper (but didn't fell like searching for it online OR typing it up). :)

-Tatu