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As one of the biggest Firefox contributors, I am actually annoyed by how bad this decision is from a technical point of view as well. We have already seen malw
by evilpie 12y ago
As one of the biggest Firefox contributors, I am actually annoyed by how bad this decision is from a technical point of view as well.
We have already seen malware that just replaces the Chrome binary to avoid add-on checks, but somehow this isn't seen as a big problem?
> That is possible, but I don’t expect the majority of
malware developers to go through such trouble. [1]
I can totally understand where this idea is coming from, but trying to somehow secure Firefox on a system that is already busted is futile.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing-safer-experience/comment-page-2/#comment-212726 https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing...