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FBI May Be Hoarding a Firefox Zero-Day (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Vice reported at the end of March that the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice are fighting tooth and nail to keep a Tor Browser exploit hidden from the public eye. Computer experts were quick to point out that this Tor Browser exploit, technically speaking, is a Firefox exploit, since Tor's browser is based on Firefox's ESR platform. Taking into account that Firefox follows open-source philosophy and reveals all security flaws reported, the effort which the FBI puts into restricting access to its exploit leads to only one conclusion, and that is that the FBI is hoarding a Firefox zero-day, currently unpatched in the browser's core -- something it hopes to use once again.

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  1. Re:Reasonable solution by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    ---edit for formatting--- *why doesn't slashdot have a WYSIWYG editor yet? grumble, grumble*

    Oh you dreamer...we can't even edit our own posts, a WYSIWYG editor is so far beyond that capability that you may as well wish for your own Martian Moonbase stocked with 19-year old nymphomaniacs with a Beer Generator powered by perpetual motion.

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
  2. Re:hihihi ^^ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do You know what is wrong in the world? What's the color of the panties of the president of Germany? If You use exploits to know that, that's a crime.
    (I know this isn't funny, but that's the difference between European women and Amerian woman - American men doesn't respect American women like European men respect European woman, because Angry Bird (yes, that's was her MSN nick once) would just punch the guy who disrespects her. An women CAN be president, making things better to woman (what a hell am I talking about???) but rich men - basicaly the patriarc stereotypes, like the that enemy of Deadpool, Pope Francis - will not play by her rules... So, what are You gong to do? HUH? You're so much of a cunt, that You have a pregnant pussy full of pussies inside your pussy. Meh.

    dude your brain has a buffer overflow