firethief:

> Firefox released a security upgrade after it emerged that the NSA was exploiting vulnerabilities in the browser to gain access to computers using Tor, a sophisticated anonymity tool.

Last I heard the earliest known usage of the vulnerability was a while after Firefox was patched. Of course, the NSA's well-known to use their valuable exploits only on choice targets before rolling them out on a scale that would blow their cover, but the article's timeline is wrong.


posted 3828 days ago