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Don't use Firefox - ALF Snitch writes it

Snitchwatch | 02.01.2011 11:28 | Animal Liberation | World

Where is former Animal Liberation Front prisoner and FBI informant Justin Samuel now? Designing the internet browser you may be using to read this.

Open letter to Mozilla Firefox

A few questions that might be posed to Justin Samuel’s current employers at Mozilla (these are really three ways of asking the same thing):

*Do you feel employing Justin Samuel, someone who has has worked with the FBI as an informant, to be a credibility-compromising to your product, and trust-eroding among its users?

*Can you brand Firefox a “safe and secure” browser with someone who signed a plea agreement obligating him to provide information directly to the FBI?

*Can anyone feel comfortable using Mozilla Firefox 4 knowing a person responsible for making it “secure” has a working relationship with a federal law enforcement agency?

While I don’t believe in “internet security”, I’m still going with the Opera browser… starting now.

- Peter Young

Snitchwatch
- Homepage: http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/mozilla-gets-alf-snitch-to-design-firefox-browser-security-plus-more/

Comments

Display the following 6 comments

  1. They probably don't care... — Crypto
  2. Bad advice - Opera isn't fully free and open — anon
  3. Use linux! — Time for change
  4. Use Open Source — Slightly Tech
  5. Safety in openness — Techie
  6. explanation of "Open Source" for non techies — anon