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Stagefright bug
[edit]Hello! As noted in my edit summary, that addition to the Stagefright (bug) article was a little bit out of place at the moment, and I will incorporate that information into the article expansion I've been working on in the last few days; of course, thank you very much for pointing it out. Hope you understand, and sorry for reverting. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 21:12, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- May be we can keep the CVE-2015-3864 part and revert only CyanogenMod part? Many people use Wikipedia as the most reputable information source on the Internet and most likely there will be lots of misunderstandings about the Stagefright issues, because at first there were published several vulnerabilities and on August 13 there was published additional one (actually a bug in previous patches). I would like to make information about newly found Stagefright vulnerability available on Wikipedia as-soon-as-possible. --DavisNT (talk) 21:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- Totally understood. My plan is to have the expanded and updated version of the article finished and live in the next 12 to 16 hours, so we probably should be able to wait for that long? Of course, I'll make sure to include the information you've provided. It's just that currently there's pretty much no neat place in the article to add such new information. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 22:15, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- Understood your point - the article needs "refactoring". And thank you very much for doing it! However I still think that sometimes more (and messy) information is better than less (and still messy), BUT I will leave this decision to you as you are editing Wikipedia MUCH more than I do. BTW List of original 7 CVEs is on Zimperium site. The Stagefright issue also affects Firefox web browser (AFAIK on all platforms), but I do not know whether CVE-2015-3864 is patched in Firefox. --DavisNT (talk) 22:53, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- P.S. Mozilla article on Stagefright issues (dated August 11). --DavisNT (talk) 23:04, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- You're welcome. :) I totally understand your concerns, and I've seen quite a few articles going down in quality by having more content added in an unstructured way; some of such articles stayed in that "degraded" condition for many months, and only a few of them have been properly refactored at a certain point in time. Those are just my observations so far. With all that in mind, although it's a somewhat tough call, I'd say that we should wait a little longer (especially because it's about 15 hours away) and we'll have a well structured article. Thank you very much for those additional sources! — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 23:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm working on it, had to rest a bit as I was rather tired. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 16:31, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Could you please prioritize this article on your to-do list? Or can I add my change back? --DavisNT (talk) 19:01, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ugh, sorry for the delay. Started working on it, but got carried away with other articles; however, I've wrapped up other things and will get back to the Stagefright article in the next few hours. Sorry once again. :( — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 19:25, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- One part of the updates I've planned is done, everything should be completed by tomorrow. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 11:44, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Great! Thank you very much! I assume you ar eplanning to mention CVE-2015-3864 in the second set of changes? BTW I got response from Firefox (and looked at the code as well) CVE-2015-3864 was mitigated in Firefox 38 (before the CVE was announced). -- DavisNT (talk) 21:15, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Of course, there will be much more expansion, the article is still quite far away from what its final version is going to be. :) — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 04:00, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- Great! Thank you very much! I assume you ar eplanning to mention CVE-2015-3864 in the second set of changes? BTW I got response from Firefox (and looked at the code as well) CVE-2015-3864 was mitigated in Firefox 38 (before the CVE was announced). -- DavisNT (talk) 21:15, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- One part of the updates I've planned is done, everything should be completed by tomorrow. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 11:44, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ugh, sorry for the delay. Started working on it, but got carried away with other articles; however, I've wrapped up other things and will get back to the Stagefright article in the next few hours. Sorry once again. :( — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 19:25, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- Could you please prioritize this article on your to-do list? Or can I add my change back? --DavisNT (talk) 19:01, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm working on it, had to rest a bit as I was rather tired. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 16:31, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- You're welcome. :) I totally understand your concerns, and I've seen quite a few articles going down in quality by having more content added in an unstructured way; some of such articles stayed in that "degraded" condition for many months, and only a few of them have been properly refactored at a certain point in time. Those are just my observations so far. With all that in mind, although it's a somewhat tough call, I'd say that we should wait a little longer (especially because it's about 15 hours away) and we'll have a well structured article. Thank you very much for those additional sources! — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 23:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- Totally understood. My plan is to have the expanded and updated version of the article finished and live in the next 12 to 16 hours, so we probably should be able to wait for that long? Of course, I'll make sure to include the information you've provided. It's just that currently there's pretty much no neat place in the article to add such new information. — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 22:15, 15 August 2015 (UTC)