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Ping me on signal when you get a chance!

that was very much one of the lesson learned

Yeah. Sorry about that... We didn't think that the intermediate CA expiring would break the signatures, because code signing generally doesn't care about expiration, but we never t…

Hey Ben! (I made and used to maintain Autograph at Mozilla)

Don't called your project *Zilla. The copyright owners of Godzilla are known to go after everyone who tries to use the "Zilla" suffix. Mozilla learned its lesson long ago and had t…

The most compelling reason to use Firefox Sync is that it is client-side encrypted. Mozilla stores opaque encrypted blobs that it is entirely unable to decrypt. Law enforcement age…

Mastodon's infosec.exchange is doing genuinely well. It's not the infosec Twitter of the olden days, but it's the most promising replacement we've got.

Sops original author here. I haven't contributed to the project in a few years, but it's really cool to see that it continued to grow and gain traction outside of Mozilla. Thanks f…

Wait until this happens to your car...

that's why archive.org exists

Which any programming language can handle easily. The architecture here is more interesting than the language choice.

So governments already have all the potassium nitrate, Palantir is just helping them make bullets?

Sops creator and co-maintainer here. We love Sops. We love Vault. We use both of them at Mozilla in various places. Beyond the "tool war", which is silly, what really matters is us…

Mozilla did this a couple years ago. https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot/test-pilot-no-more-404...

I hate gigantic URLs, but not as much as I hate extensions that want to access my data for all websites.

> 76-97 minutes read indeed...

IANAL, and I wouldn't try explaining that to a prosecutor or a federal judge...

"Math Basics" It's 2000 pages long....

Firefox Reality is a version of Firefox targeted at VR headsets. You can install it from the store of the Oculus Quest (the headset I own, I imagine others are supported). It's not…

This is accurate. I would add that, in my experience, the value-add of working with a technical editor to shape the book and stay on track is definitely worth the cost of an editor…