Federal judge rejects Mozilla’s demand to see bug in Tor browser

A federal judge earlier this week rejected a request by Mozilla that the U.S. government provide it with technical information about a vulnerability in the Tor browser, which is based on Mozilla’s Firefox.

Last week, Mozilla filed a motion with a federal court in Seattle asking U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan to force authorities to disclose the Tor browser vulnerability to Mozilla before revealing the bug to others, including the defendant in an ongoing case who was charged with visiting a child pornography website.

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