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One odd thing about the Firefox Send shutdown is that the security community repeatedly asked Mozilla to add a "Report abuse" button to help take down known mal
by feross 6y ago
One odd thing about the Firefox Send shutdown is that the security community repeatedly asked Mozilla to add a "Report abuse" button to help take down known malware links. Instead Mozilla shut down the whole service, which was a bit extreme. So I think abuse was, at least in part, a convenient cover story for the planned shutdowns/layoffs/refocusing that took place at Mozilla at the end of 2020.
We think it's encouraging that other products that offer end-to-end encryption like Signal and WhatsApp have managed to handle abuse, malware, and other threats.