Re: [Dailydave] XSS=10000

[Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Rauc wrote:
>> I have to admit this is in the top 10 "hacking contest" fails of all
>> time. 
> 
> I am not sure that this is really a fail. For only $10k, he managed to
> get a penetration test that involved numbers of hackers. Sure the
> product failed to stand up, (Due to a really stupid bug) but the bug was
> found, and now it can be fixed.
> 
> We have seen that the world is willing to put up with claims of software
> being secure, even when it is not. Oracle's 'Unbreakable', Windows NT
> was 'Unstoppable', and a host of others.
> 
> Business executives will still choose a product such as this so called
> Strongmail, if it is marketed well. Additionally, if this company can
> show that it learns from it's mistakes, as Microsoft had for a time,
> they will be even better off.

Nobody is going to buy this webmail thing. That's not the company's
goal. The webmail app is a trojan to show off their phone authentication
service, which is what they are really trying to sell.

-- 
Nate
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