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		SunlitCat 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of code signing at Mozilla Yeah that one! I wonder when the first installer comes around patching known versions of Firefox to accept unsigned addons to dump their awesome toolbar onto the user. (Or just outright overwrite the users Firefox with an own version of Firefox, not including said check)

megous 11 months ago [–]

It's (was) implemented in omni.ja. I was patching it in the past, until they started signing that too. Bleh.

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