Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Why the hell aren't they signed in a "Signature valid at timestamp" system with revocation (like app signing in several major commercial OSes), which while obnoxious, at least is not set up so things will break via inaction? Users' working binaries should never just stop working because an out-of-mind third party did something, and even moreso because they did not do something.
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