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According to a Motherboard report, the FBI might be withholding a secret Firefox vulnerability from the public.

 

Experts are speculating that the FBI may be closely guarding a secret vulnerability in the Firefox browser that it can exploit for future law enforcement purposes, according to a Motherboard report yesterday.

 

The article refers to a network investigative technique that the FBI used to hack visitors of the Playpen child pornography website. That site runs on the encrypted Tor network, but an exploit that works on the Tor browser would also work just as effectively on Firefox, upon which Tor was built.

 

So far the U.S. Department of Justice has resisted a U.S. district court order to disclose the technique. In an interview with Motherboard, Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said that by not disclosing the alleged vulnerability in such a popular global browser, “The government is essentially choosing to keep hundreds of millions of people vulnerable in case a few of them turn out to be criminals later.”

 

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it's only you, they have always behave like that, it's just that it gets a little more in the spotlight nowadays

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57 minutes ago, WALLONN7 said:
Is it me or the FBI has been taken by a paparazzi behavior?!...

Back in  old gangster  days  gangsters  were looked up too  as  being cool because old Hollywood movies made them out too be so every one wanted to be gangsters   . So the US government and Hover  got Hollywood to make G men  out to be cool  then  soon after everyone started wanting  to be the FBI  instead of Gangsters . Always Media has had strange effects  on people's way of thinking  .

 

Thats why in countries ran by dictators and stuff they censor the internet and TV  and only spreads that dictators or party's  government's views .  When you read or watch the news  if it sounds like propaganda most likely it is . If stinks like poop, most likely it is poop . Everything is written by the mainstream media and scandal  sells  .

 

Back in the 80s and 90s Fallen Televangelist scandals  and Police scandals had everyone glued to there TV . Even OJ  Simpson got away with murder  because the trail was focused on the police being raciest  instead  of the murders .  So you cant believe everything you read and hear these pedos in this case were downloading files  from the FBI  and anyone knows  downloading  files from people you dont know has spread  virus since there was virus and malware . :)

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2 minutes ago, steven36 said:

Back in  gangster  times  gangsters  were looked up to  be cool because old Hollywood movies made them out too be so every one wanted to be gangsters   . So the US government and Hover  got Hollywood to make G men  out to be cool  then  soon after everyone started wanting  to be the FBI  instead of Gangsters . Always Media has had strange effects  on people's of thinking   thats why in countries ran by dictators and stuff they censor the internet and TV  and only spreads that dictators or party's  government .  When you read or watch the news  if it sounds like propaganda most likely it is . If stinks like poop most likely it is poop . Everything is written by the mainstream media and scandal  sells  . Back in the 80s and 90s Fallen Televangelist scandals  and Police scandals had everyone glued to there TV . Even OJ  Simpson got away with murder  because the trail was focused on the police being raciest  instead  of the murder .  So you cant believe every you read and  these pedos in this case were downloading files  from the FBI  and anyone knows  downloading  files from people you dont know has spreed  virus since there virus and malware . :)

 

Makes sense... a lot...

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1 hour ago, WALLONN7 said:

 

Makes sense... a lot...

Now the FBI  is the boggy man ... Its  been said NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999

http://www.techworm.net/2013/06/nsa-built-back-door-in-microsofts-all.html

 

Heck that was 2 years before i bought my 1st PC ..  Back after 9/11  the FBI  and NSA caught a bunch of terrorist trough chat rooms , Most of the software companies worked with the Government . So all this Microsoft taking the FBI to court If Microsoft Didn't store all you're data they be nothing to get . Data retention is not even a law in the USA . If these places were not trying  sell you're data and hold on to it for personal gain they be nothing to get .  I dont agree  with the way the  FBI does things i never have but without them  it would not even be safe to be in you're  own home . But the things these Fortune 500 Companies do to make money they bring it on there self .  If I was a Law maker the 1st i would do is get rid of the problem  I would ban Data retention for profit.  If you cant make ads with out stealing peoples info to sell things  you should not make ads . I dont look at ads no way  I been blocking ads since 2006  24/7  thats the reason I stop using IE .

 

If people are so scared  of the police  they should log of the internet but when its needed for work , to pay bills  , Or to shop ..But I dont see no one logging off .only i see people expressing  there opinion on the internet because they love scandal and drama they feed off it , instead of solving the problem by not coming online . In other words they need to get a real life  . :P

 

The whole Internet has always been hacked by the Government  and hackers if you run Peer Guardian  Linux or Peer Block for Windows and add the right list you will see this . If you go out in public you're going be seen by everyone unless you ware a disguise and that dont mean someone might not figure out its you and the internet is public domain so if you dont  change you're ip everyone is going know its you and it dont mean some may not figure  out its you if you're careless .

 

By the  main stream media reinforcing paranoia , it does more harm by putting the what if in peoples minds, than all the worlds spies and law enforcement  combined does .

 

This is why  for many years I didn't read are watch the news  and life went on better without it.

 

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