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Thank you for your response. I wanted to add to what I'm sure is a chorus of commentary that your team is currently dealing with. But I don't know if this speci

Thank you for your response. I wanted to add to what I'm sure is a chorus of commentary that your team is currently dealing with. But I don't know if this specific point has been made. Your team has just ruined a huge amount of trust by not appropriately reviewing and documenting this feature. This goodwill is the most important capital Mozilla has. Your team is continuing to make this situation worse by not posting any official response on Mozilla's communication channels, and by arbitrarily censoring incoming comments. It would be appropriate for all members of your team to question the processes that led to this, and drive structural changes to ensure this never happens again. This includes the continued inaction of Mozilla's communications team.

Manishearth 9y ago
I'm unsure if this was actually callahad's team doing this. But regardless, basically the entire company is on flights right now, and it's the weekend after an intensive all-company event, and everyone is tired, and it's the freaking weekend. Wait a bit. (Also, the Gizmodo article is an official response, as is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass. There will probably be more, idk.)
- kashyapc 9y ago
  You maybe "unsure", but for an outsider reading Callahad's response, it looks like so. Besides, it's meant to be read as: "one of your teams". Also, your all-company event maybe "intensive", but it doesn't matter one whit. Why? When your corporation's actions are raising a damn ugly stink ruining Mozilla's good will, you're better off paying immediate attention even if it's the "freaking weekend". It's elementary common sense.
  - Manishearth 9y ago
    Given the responses to emails folks have sent internally, they are paying immediate attention, they just haven't gotten to the point of making public statements aside from the Gizmodo article.
- Simon_says 9y ago
  > The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security. One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. Is this satire?
  - btschaegg 9y ago
    I am more and more under the impression that the best satire is written without the intention to do so. There are so many things said and written by public figures nowadays that a sane mind could never come up with, even if they tried. So, from a certain perspective, yes it is.
  - chc 9y ago
    This incident did not, as far as I can tell, harm anyone's security or privacy. This add-on doesn't appear to track you, send your information to anyone, or grant access to your system to anyone else. People are upset to find the add-on on their systems, but what it actually does is not incompatible with the above paragraph.
    - Simon_says 9y ago
      Yea, I guess.
jftuga 9y ago
Uninstall Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-your-computer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-...

Manishearth 9y ago

I'm unsure if this was actually callahad's team doing this. But regardless, basically the entire company is on flights right now, and it's the weekend after an intensive all-company event, and everyone is tired, and it's the freaking weekend. Wait a bit. (Also, the Gizmodo article is an official response, as is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass. There will probably be more, idk.)

kashyapc 9y ago
You maybe "unsure", but for an outsider reading Callahad's response, it looks like so. Besides, it's meant to be read as: "one of your teams". Also, your all-company event maybe "intensive", but it doesn't matter one whit. Why? When your corporation's actions are raising a damn ugly stink ruining Mozilla's good will, you're better off paying immediate attention even if it's the "freaking weekend". It's elementary common sense.
- Manishearth 9y ago
  Given the responses to emails folks have sent internally, they are paying immediate attention, they just haven't gotten to the point of making public statements aside from the Gizmodo article.
Simon_says 9y ago
> The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security. One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. Is this satire?
- btschaegg 9y ago
  I am more and more under the impression that the best satire is written without the intention to do so. There are so many things said and written by public figures nowadays that a sane mind could never come up with, even if they tried. So, from a certain perspective, yes it is.
- chc 9y ago
  This incident did not, as far as I can tell, harm anyone's security or privacy. This add-on doesn't appear to track you, send your information to anyone, or grant access to your system to anyone else. People are upset to find the add-on on their systems, but what it actually does is not incompatible with the above paragraph.
  - Simon_says 9y ago
    Yea, I guess.

jftuga 9y ago

Uninstall Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-your-computer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-...