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Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering someone had accidentally committed an…

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Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering someone had accidentally committed an unencrypted copy of the private key to a GitHub repository.

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