[HTTPS-Everywhere] Firefox to require extensions be signed by addons.mozilla.org

[Claudio Moretti]

Hi Jacob, Cooper,

in light of the upload of HTTPS-E on AMO, has there been any development in
the discussions you mentioned earlier?

Thanks,

Claudio

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha at eff.org> wrote:

> +cooper
> > And I agree with Yan in saying that it would fulfill our use case. Do
> > you believe we have a way of     pushing this?  (which, as of now,
> > it's not even being looked at)
> I think Cooper's going to be discussing the planned changes with
> Mozilla. In general we're fairly unhappy with the fact that this creates
> more of a central chokepoint for "acceptable" add-ons. Mozilla can be
> pressured to take down add-ons for various reasons, including both
> government and advertiser pressure. When users can choose to install
> those add-ons from a different source, this is less crucial, but if it
> becomes impossible to do so, this becomes a bigger issue.
>
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