Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by SilasX on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:12AM
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> a) it's very hard to figure out if something is private/secure
> b) the company can change the deal at any point
Yes! Don’t forget the time Firefox, bastion of privacy, forgot to update a critical cert that allowed addons to work, and then said, “don’t worry guys, the whole time we had the power to force our updates without your consent, under the guise of an analytics feature, and we used that to fix this!”
People generally want privacy and security, as numerous polls show, but:
a) it's very hard to figure out if something is private/secure
b) the company can change the deal at any point
c) the market has stacked the deck against privacy and security.
Until there are laws with teeth which will punish transgressors, not much will change.