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Photos: Hackers outline possible Firefox crack

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October 2, 2006 9:38 AM PDT

Jesse Ruderman (left), a Mozilla security staffer, was called to the stage with the two hackers, Wbeelsoi and Spiegelmock. He attempted to persuade the presenters to responsibly disclose flaws via Mozilla's bug bounty program, instead of releasing them publicly or using them for malicious purposes--such as creating networks of hijacked PCs, called botnets, which is what the two claimed they did.

Photo by Joris Evers/CNET News.com

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