[LINK] Mozilla in the Frontline of CyberWarfare

[tomk]

On 1/09/2012 11:24 a.m., Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:56 AM 1/09/2012, Roger Clarke you wrote:
>>> This is extremely aggressive and unusual behaviour on the part of Firefox.
>>> It would appear that Firefox have sold out to the Corporativism meme and
>>> can no longer be trusted to operate as agreed.
>> Mozilla and Firefox ceased to be trustworthy quite some time ago.
>>
>> I suspect that the simplest explanation is that the organisation must
>> be run by geeks-who-think-like-marketers not
>> geeks-who-think-like-consumers.
>
> I wrote to Tom privately about this, but since it has continued,
> think about this. AVG is a program that operates outside of Firefox.
> Firefox cannot "know" what you have installed outside of its own
> environment. Their promise to check add-ons is about those that are
> added onto Firefox. AVG is not an add-on. Firefox DOES check any
> add-ons installed and advises of impact.

Just so there is no misunderstanding - the add-on that Firefox ignored 
IS in their environment.
PNG of add-ons on my netbook is here - > 
http://kovtr.com/data/Link/Firefox_Extensions.png

>
> Firefox has also built in many security setting options today. I do
> not see it as security and privacy Un-friendly at all.

Well their actions in this regard ARE not only unfriendly they are 
downright aggressive.

> Just my opinion.
> Jan
Just the facts ma'am, no opinions...

TomK