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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by Sylos on Monday July 18, 2016 @04:30PM (#12117886)
Uhm, Mozilla does a code review of every extension or update to an extension before it gets published on AMO, so it should hardly be possible for a malicious third party to do malicious things...
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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by Animats on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:06PM (#12118058)
There's an outfit called WIPS which buys up abandoned Firefox add-ons and puts adware and spyware in them.[1] BlockSite [2] is an example. This was approved by Mozilla AMO.[3]

[1] http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/12/mozilla-needs-a-new-audit-p... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocksite/rev... [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903799

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