Mozilla asks court to disclose Tor bug the FBI exploited to catch pedophiles

In an effort to ensure the security of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has filed a brief with a US district court in Washington to request that the government reveal details about a vulnerability the FBI discovered in the Tor browser. Back in 2015, the the agency launched ‘Operation Pacifier’ to track down pedophiles frequenting Playpen, an infamous destination on the Dark Web for images of child sexual abuse. Instead of shutting Playpen down completely when it seized control of the site, the FBI chose to move it to their own servers and continue running it clandestinely in order to identify and pursue legal action…
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