Also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227867

On 30/11/15 20:31, Bobby Holley wrote:
> (Gingerly wading into this thread and hoping not to get sucked in)
> 
> Given the fundamental limits of static analysis, dynamic analysis might be
> a better approach. I think we can do a reasonable job (with the help of
> interpositions) of monitoring the various escape points at which addon code
> might do arbitrary dangerous things, without actually preventing it from
> doing those things in a way that would break lots of addons. We could then
> keep an eye on what addons are doing in the wild, and revoke the signatures
> for the addon / developer if we find them to be misbehaving.
> 
> I proposed this in [1] and it got filed separately as [2]. Detailed
> follow-up discussion is probably better to do in that bug.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199628#c26
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1227464
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