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Hackers claim Firefox zero-day flaw
Created: 10/02/2006
Video description: At a talk at the ToorCon hacker conference in San Diego on Saturday, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi outline a possible vulnerability and zero-day exploit in the open-source Firefox Web browser. (Video courtesy of Media Archives.)

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