jvehent

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by jvehent 8y ago
would you have purchased it?
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by jvehent 8y ago
$8/month is the yearly price. Monthly is also $10/month.
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by jvehent 8y ago
Because bundling Tor in Firefox would generate so much traffic it would take down the network. Tor needs to grow significantly before that integration is possible.
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Trusting the delivery of Firefox Updates(blog.mozilla.org)
11 points by jvehent 8y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 8y ago
Open Source crypto is no worse than closed source crypto. This is fantastic news and a strong validation of the open source development model for security systems. ;)
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by jvehent 8y ago
Or use the docker container directly: $ docker pull mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/docker.md
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by jvehent 8y ago
There is only a finite number of people willing/able to spend $60k on a recreational vehicle.
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by jvehent 8y ago
Modern projects don't rely on local linting and testing, but instead leverage continuous integration platforms like travisci or circleci for verification.
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by jvehent 8y ago
It's not just a matter of operational cost. We spend a lot of time and effort making our code accessible to new contributors, and lowering that barrier is very important. Contributing to code in Mercurial is hard (but getting easier wi
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by jvehent 8y ago
For most folks who already have an account, it's just a matter of clicking the "edit" icon on the top right of a file, making the change, then saving it. GitHub does everything else under the hood, and creates a fork and pull
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by jvehent 8y ago
Firefox and related code is on Mercurial, self-hosted, and mirror on GitHub. But Mozilla is a lot more than just Firefox, and tons of our applications, services, experiments and so on are hosted on GitHub.
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Protecting Mozilla’s GitHub Repositories from Malicious Modification(blog.mozilla.org)
152 points by jvehent 8y ago|54 comments
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by jvehent 8y ago
Actually, I do.
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by jvehent 8y ago
Maybe don't install random PAC files in your main browser profile, unless you enjoy surrounding control over your web browsing to a third party. Instead, install this in a separate profile.
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Safe Harbor for Security Bug Bounty Participants(blog.mozilla.org)
4 points by jvehent 8y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 8y ago
As many have commented, this isn't a new tool for technologists. The goal of Firefox Monitor is to bring this functionality to non-technical users, which requires a lot of user experience research to inform without scaring people away
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by jvehent 8y ago
Yes, I upgraded to a fountain pen a while ago!
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by jvehent 8y ago
Or you could say it's an opportunity to improve mission critical code that tons of high valuation companies use every day for free ;)
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Hands-On Web Security: Capture the Flag with OWASP Juice Shop(hacks.mozilla.org)
1 points by jvehent 9y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 9y ago
This is much more complex than a lone hacker being persecuted by an oppressive US government. There is suspicion that Wikileaks is one arm of Russian propaganda, and while I do not know if this is true or not, it does turn the entire Assang
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by jvehent 9y ago
A very weak sense of sarcasm.
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by jvehent 9y ago
Because real estate is an illusion when you live in the Bay area?
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by jvehent 9y ago
Genuinely asking: how is youtube supposed to pay for their own expenses when everyone uses brave and depletes their revenue stream? Won't that kill the platform itself?
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Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash reporter, cryptohomed(bugs.chromium.org)
2 points by jvehent 9y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 9y ago
I don't think it would be that easy. If this is done "the right way", then facebook processes audio locally and only uploads keywords every once in a while. The traffic would be indistinguishable from normal https traffic bet
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On the prevalence of XSS attacks in modern web applications(jve.linuxwall.info)
6 points by jvehent 9y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 9y ago
Like that "turbo" switch on my 1990s PC!
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by jvehent 9y ago
Legal requirements in a handful of countries make it really hard to hire, but the vast majority of the world is usually fair game. I'm not sure what the industry standard is wrt adjusting salary based on location, but considering the c
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by jvehent 9y ago
I've been at Mozilla four years, working on operations security, and I still consider it the best job I've ever had. I worked in banking and a few startups before joining Mozilla, and neither the culture or technology were ever gr
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by jvehent 9y ago
> Maybe there's a good book on the subject? Shameless plug: I wrote a book exactly on this topic, and you're my target audience, so hopefully it answers a bunch of your questions. https://www.manning.com/books&#

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