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firethief · 3970 days ago · link · · parent · post: Mozilla Lightbeam for Firefox: NSA spying row leads firm to expose who's watching while you surf - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
> 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.