![]() ![]() Mozilla has now filed a motion with a US district court in Washington, asking the government to disclose the vulnerability within 14 days before any disclosure to the Defendant requiring the FBI to hand over the source code of the exploit to the defense team. At this point, no one (including us) outside the government knows what vulnerability was exploited and whether it resides in any of our code base." Some have speculated, including members of the defense team, that the vulnerability might exist in the portion of the Firefox browser code relied on by the Tor Browser. "The Tor Browser is partially based on our Firefox browser code. ![]() Here's what Mozilla's top lawyer Denelle Dixon-Thayer explained in a blog post: Two months back, a judge ordered the FBI to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit that not only affected the Tor Browser, which would have likely been used to hack visitors of PlayPen, but also Firefox. ![]() The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were then forced to hand over the target customer's details, following their arrest. The FBI hacked more than a thousand computers in the US alone and over three thousand abroad. ![]()
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