Flaw in Thunderbird bypasses Firefox ‘Torified’ security and privacy defenses

Do you use the free email client Thunderbird? Do you also use Tor? If so, then there’s been a security flaw awaiting a fix from Mozilla for over two years; now the bug has been publicly disclosed.Thunderbird security bug Mike Cardwell, a developer, IT consultant, sysadmin and security researcher in the UK, informed the Tor-talk mailing list about a security issue in the Thunderbird app.