HTTPS Everywhere Chrome users: be advised that a security vulnerability has 
been found of moderate severity with versions <= 2016.3.23 of the extension.  
This has been fixed as of the latest version, 2016.4.4, released earlier this 
week and available via the Chrome Web Store.[1]

The vulnerability, discovered by Dylan Katz[2], allows any remote website to 
cause the Chrome browser to hang indefinitely by triggering a redirect in HTTPS 
Everywhere with a specially-crafted URL.  We thank Dylan for reporting this to 
us and allowing us to fix it in a timely manner.

This was disclosed as a part of EFF's Security Vulnerability Disclosure 
Program[3], launched in December of last year.

1. 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/gcbommkclmclpchllfjekcdonpmejbdp
2. https://www.eff.org/security/hall-of-fame
3. https://www.eff.org/security

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