Disagree. It's important to evaluate and fix Mozilla software before assuming it's at IceCat quality level. I mean that quality in privacy and security terms by default.
El 09/03/17 a les 13:49, David Hedlund ha escrit: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > [[[ Use this signature in you own emails to campaign for it. ]]] > > > IceCat should release new versions from the upstream release as _soon_ > as it has been released. Users of delayed libre-upstream forks are > exploited by the NSA: > > > From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 > > *Vault 7* is a series of documents that WikiLeaks > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks> began to release on March 7, > 2017 that detail activities of the United States > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> Central Intelligence > Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency> to > perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_warfare>. According to WikiLeaks > founder Julian Assange <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange>, > Vault 7 is the most comprehensive release of US spying files ever made > public.^[1] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-Inde_7_Mar_2017_Vault_7-1> > The files, dated from 2013–2016, include details on software > capabilities of the agency, such as the ability to compromise smart TVs > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_TV>,^[2] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-NYT_7_Mar_2017_CIA_leaks-2> > smartphones <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone>, including Apple > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.>'s iPhone > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone> and phones running Google > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google>'s Android > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29> operating > system, as well as operating systems > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> such as Microsoft > Windows <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows>, macOS > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS>, and Linux > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>. > > It also said that it would postpone releasing the source code for the > cyber weapons, which is reportedly several hundred million lines long, > "until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the > C.I.A.'s program and how such 'weapons' should be analyzed, disarmed and > published." > > The CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including > malware <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware>, weaponized zero day > exploits <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29>, > malware remote control systems > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control_%28malware%29> and > associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts > to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor > the entire hacking capacity of the CIA > > -- > David Hedlund > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
