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Mozilla Says It Erred On SSL Attack Disclosure

Submitted by MacRonin on March 25, 2011 - 7:28pm
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Mozilla Says It Erred On SSL Attack Disclosure: Via Slashdot.

Trailrunner7 writes "Just days after news emerged of the attack on a registration authority in Europe tied to Comodo that caused the revocation of a number of fraudulent certificates from the major browsers, Mozilla officials have admitted they made a mistake by not disclosing the details of the incident to its users earlier. 'In hindsight, while it was made in good faith, this was the wrong decision. We should have informed web users more quickly about the threat and the potential mitigations as well as their side-effects.'"

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