Comment Re:You do know that's what the scientists are doin (Score 1) 401
Comment Correlation does not imply causation (Score 4, Insightful) 497
Correlation does not imply causation. And in this case, it seems like there are pretty good candidates for the common cause. And the article even recognises that - the headline is clickbait.
Comment Re:WebRTC (Score 1) 237
Not for ever - they are working on a method of doing bridge-based WebRTC which is nevertheless end-to-end secure - see https://datatracker.ietf.org/w... . AIUI, the way it works is that it established point-to-point encrypted tunnels between the endpoints for key distribution so the bridge isn't able to decrypt the data even if it wanted to, and yet, you don't need N->N transmission of streams.
Gerv
Comment WebRTC (Score 3, Informative) 237
WebRTC-based services, in the form of e.g. https://meet.jit.si/, are end-to-end secure and decentralised. Not sure if Windows Phone has any browser which supports WebRTC, though.
Comment Seems to work with Firefox too (Score 1) 164
web.skype.com lets me log in using Firefox, no problem, so presumably it works there as well.
Gerv
Comment Re:Libertarian strawmen (Score 1) 165
As far as I know there is no loophole-free way to protect a community against externalities besides government and things that are functionally identical to it.
Comment Re:Exaggerated? (Score 2, Informative) 115
It a load of rubbish from the original author. There's no reason whatsoever that loss of this data would cause problems in IE or Edge. Removing roots from MS's program doesn't happen without human input.
Comment Re:Choice of words? (Score 1) 86
"What I don't understand (and maybe because I haven't looked too hard) is what "Old POS terminals" have to do with Mozilla."
The certificates they are using chain up to publicly-trusted roots, and so are covered by Mozilla's policies. In 20-year hindsight, that was a bad idea, but it was a decision taken a long time ago.
Comment Re:zlib (Score 1) 68
Er, it's a wiki. Add it.
Comment Re: Chrome (Score 1) 97
The code for the DRM module Firefox uses is not part of the Firefox build system, but is downloaded at runtime. This can be done whether it's a Firefox built by Mozilla or not. So the DRM question has no bearing on whether you can call your version Firefox or not.
This series of blog posts: http://blog.gerv.net/2010/01/p... explains why Mozilla doesn't let just anyone call their modified version "Firefox".
Gerv
Comment Re: Haha. (Score 1) 97
The bug is unfixed for philosophical reasons, not because it's hard to fix. The Bugzilla developers feel history should be immutable.
And there has been no rewrite into another language since that bug was filed; Bugzilla as released by Mozilla has always been in Perl.
Gerv
Comment Re: Haha. (Score 1) 97
There was no issue with the Bugzilla software here; the problem was that a user reused their password on another site, which suffered a breach.
Gerv
Comment Work at Mozilla (Score 1) 318
HTH, HAND.