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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What he said is that as long as companies continue to create devices designed to defeat LEO, we're setting ourselves up to lose horribly.

They're not being designed "to defeat LEO". They're being designed to be as secure as possible against anyone who may wish to take the data on the device without the owner's permission. The fact that it becomes more difficult for law enforcement to get to the data is merely incidental, and I have very little sympathy for their problems in light of the fact that it's becoming more and more likely for innocent people to suffer loss of life or property at the hands of the government than from terrorists, child molesters, or whoever the public enemy du jour is.