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Mozilla Releases Hacker Tools

blogs.pcworld.com — Mozilla is beginning to give away programs used by both the good guys and the bad guys to discover critical program vulnerabilities. The programs, called fuzzers, have so far been for internal use only. Fuzzers poke at programs in search...

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  • fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -95/+2Who the hell came up with the name fuzzer?
  • izaic3, on 10/10/2007, -119/+5I heard that the guy who did was with your mom the night before he came up with it.
    • brklynmark, on 10/10/2007, -10/+34His dad?
      And use the reply function, you ignorant jerk-off.
  • Scyth3, on 10/10/2007, -91/+9Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuz A Bear...
    • cpcouvillion, on 10/10/2007, -23/+6Fuzzy Wuzzy Had No Hair...
      • Rekzai, on 10/10/2007, -19/+6Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, Wuzzy?
        • mastaphoo, on 10/10/2007, -15/+4of course he's fuzzy, he's a flippin' bear. duh. didn't you guys go to kindergarten?
      • dirtyfrog, on 10/10/2007, -18/+5If Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, he wasn't fuzzy was he?
  • tdrizzle, on 10/10/2007, -20/+163These comments, these comments right here are why digg is dying.
    • 28dayslater, on 10/10/2007, -45/+4Wow, go cry your tears into a monument so the world can reflect on your loss.
    • ribbleninja, on 10/10/2007, -27/+5since when is Digg dying?
      • SupremeBeing, on 10/10/2007, -15/+3Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD is dying
    • winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42My block list is getting pretty big.
    • jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1Too true.
    • Dangerman, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6Digg is dead. Long live Digg.
    • nullmind, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Well, I would like to point out this line FTA:

      Shaver says fuzzers ....

      Is this a budget porn?
  • in2deep, on 10/10/2007, -32/+3Wow interesting story!
  • vancelethurin, on 10/10/2007, -39/+1The last thing Mozilla needs to do is to release software that that will benefit the ever growing hacking business.

    -----funny articles by vancelethurin-----
    https://www.triond.com/authors-Vance%20Lethurin.7366
    • utsav007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I am not sure that this is the case. The more fuzzers are in the open, the easier it is for programmers to use them to check their own software for potential problems. Sure, back hats could use them too, but I would not be surprised if they are not already ... Go open source!
    • deadlikeoscar, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Hackers (although I think you mean crackers) don't need stuff like this. They figure stuff out on their own and do things their own way. Script Kiddies may need this though so they can keep convincing the world of how 1337 they are.
  • jason469, on 10/10/2007, -34/+2"Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuz A Bear"

    Wow, how old are some of the "diggers" on here?

    I've got one for you childish *****, Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuz a Bear And Whoever Posted That Was a Queer.
    • fugazi, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4That doesn't rhyme...
    • drewjoh, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Well thanks for being really mature about how immature a post was.
  • Shigglyboo, on 10/10/2007, -19/+2hahaha, yeah, it was asinine, but I smirked. I thought the article was cool. nice, short, informative. I also like the increasing awareness of the public in regards to tech stuff. knowledge is power folks. and digg isn't dying. it's alive and kicking. I'm sick of the word pwn, and confused why we keep seeing 'to catch a predator' videos... the only really awesome one was the one that actually had the predator... but yeah, for the most part this site give me more valuable info and fun than Google news or any other web forum.
  • zzz@tkz, on 10/10/2007, -20/+2Wait...I see a trend here...every comment is getting dugg down.
  • mattmcm, on 10/10/2007, -23/+1You all fail.
  • jabberwolf, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1"Mozilla is only releasing older tools that it and other companies - including Microsoft, Apple and Opera - have already had"
    Hmmm seems like Safari and the iphone better watch out.
  • tech9lab, on 10/10/2007, -13/+5mozilla rocks
  • mavroprovato, on 10/10/2007, -15/+6This is a great tool. With the help of this, Mozilla have discovered 280 (!!!) bugs in Firefox with 2 / 3 of them already been fixed.

    More here: http://www.squarefree.com/2007/08/02/introducing-jsfunfuzz/
  • krnldmp, on 10/10/2007, -17/+1How about releasing a toolset to help users actually catch hackers on their local machine instead of generally increasing vulnerability until the next frantically downloaded (I'm sure they hope) browser update?
  • spelunker, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1This digg down reminds me of Jessica Alba
  • RubberChicken, on 10/10/2007, -17/+1Entourage had a fuzzer on the last episode, and THAT was hilarious
  • KnightMareInc, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6 much better than secuirty throught obscurity
  • SkullWolf, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0They really should just call them Failures, you know, after the person who named them originally.
  • RubberChicken, on 10/10/2007, -16/+5This digg has gone from suck to blow!
  • zzz@tkz, on 10/10/2007, -20/+7I'm going to get a positive comment on this page, so help me god.
    • jabberwolf, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3LOL There ya go, everything is getting buried, buried alive I tell ya !
    • dtd00d, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3Should have become an atheist.
    • ThrobbingBrain, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3I swear, I hit the green thumb, but digg gave you a -1. sorry. 0_o
      • scrambledheads, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0thats because other dugg him down at the same time you dugg him up...
  • NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -14/+3I wonder how widely used things like these "fuzzers" are used. I'm looking forward to running some of these on my own stuff to see what comes up.
  • joeleslie, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3Who gives a ***** about the name?

    "OMGZ im not using GIMP cos it has a ***** pervy name!!!1!!Shift+!"
  • DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -13/+5For those who don't know, the opera dev team released a build with the hackers tools included after mozilla released them you can download the build here: my.opera.com[slash]desktopteam

    (I'm probably being dugg down anyway)
  • creoderiot, on 10/10/2007, -12/+2best.comment.thread.ever

  • dorkino, on 10/10/2007, -9/+35Let's lighten this thread up a bit: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/vernterv/Nom_bridge.jpg
    • DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Thanks
      • leksdraven, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Why are people burying this person? We were all thinking it.
        • Atomic1fire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1even though that is kind of funny
          dont you think its a bit to early to be making jokes about the incident
  • HyperionZero, on 10/10/2007, -9/+14That's awesome of Mozilla to do. These are valuable tools in program debugging that can discover vulnerabilities that would normally slip past the amateur programmer.
    • OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2E.g. Microsoft.
      • bioskope, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Hey OB dincha hear. The Anti MS Bandwagon left your station a long time back. Since when did you start surmising that MS contains amateur programmers? I mean sure attack them for their business policies. But tosuggest something like this is purely laughabale. I dare you to group together a band of 500 programmers from the OSS community to team up and make an OS that becomes more widely accepted than Windows.

        So according to your assumption do all the great programmers of the world work only in the OSS community?
  • TheFBI, on 10/10/2007, -11/+2What exacty is going on?
  • Workage, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2"These comments, these comments right here are why digg is dying."

    digg is dying because it takes 100 stories to 150 just to hit front page, or the licuky ones that get dugg up really fast which can break before 100. I've been here for a year or more, I really think they have to set the bar lower, or no one gets to see these 'BREAKING' stories unless its been dugg 100+ times and after 20 hours!
    • UlicBelouve, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2RSS it like I do. You'll see everything submitted right away. Or, you can RSS the ones that just make it to top in 24 hours. I don't know how I got the RSS's to make the distinction, but it works wonders.
  • polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2I like air.
  • rob3, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6Bury!!!!! :D
  • leksdraven, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5I know that I am just adding to the fire here, but... maybe what's wrong with Digg is that half of all comments are not even related to their story. Just a thought.
    • Bjwebb, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Hmm true, but can that be avoided.
      BTW ours aren't either :D
    • dorkino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2OM NOM NOM NOM
    • lardmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0yah, i agree that the relevance of comments on digg isnt related to fuzzers at all also!

      whadaya know!
  • nicksauce, on 10/10/2007, -16/+0If you bury this comment you are gay
    • whistlerpro, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Damn you! I buried the comment and I'm still heterosexual.
    • AxiomShell, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Somebody has a phobia.
  • SmokinWeed, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2Who spends so much time digging people down?
  • yodug007, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2lol i've never seem so many buried comments. good thing we're disregarding the perspectives of others...

    anyway, this is def a great move on mozilla's part. it's not necessarily going to make a significant impact simply because one can get a good, free, fuzzer just about anywhere but the thought process is on track.
  • NerdyNinja, on 10/10/2007, -12/+2Jesus christ, that's the most commenting burying I've ever seen. I smell hax, a lot of these comments are perfectly legitimate.

    Watch this comment disappear!
  • OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1I need to do penetration testing.
  • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3Another bury party? Count me in.
  • eTronicGaming, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1So many negative diggs in these comments...
  • alex626av, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0QUICK everyone lets digg down everyone
  • tubeblender, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0what stays in vegas happens in, *****, i'm drunk
  • lardmaster, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1you will never digg me down, never!! NEVER, YOU HEAR ME!!! I WILL NOT FALL!!!!

    oh crap... there i go... never mind...
  • xErath, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Hacker tool ? Now any newbie that embeds the fuzzer in his webpage is a hacker now ?

    It's a damn fuzzer, a TEST tool.
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