Word: cabocomm
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...flaw in their Netscape 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 browsers that allows web site operators to read the contents of your hard drive. So far, this is business as usual -- Microsoft experienced a security problem with its Internet Explorer browser three months ago. The rub came earlier this week, when Cabocomm, the Danish company that discovered the bug, told Netscape it wanted to be paid what a spokesman called "a large, unspecified amount of money" to give the company the solution...
...discovers a 'serious' flaw in it's products. So far, according to Rosanne Siino, Netscape?s vice president of corporate communications, "I've never heard of another case where someone withheld information. In general, people have been terrific about sharing information." Siino says the company refused to pay Cabocomm, since that would set a bad precedent. Netscape compares the situation to one where "somebody makes a bomb threat and then wants you to pay him to tell you where the bomb is." Others are not so sure; some Web discussion groups have likened the deal to merely negotiating over...
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