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Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo

The Hacker News·August 11, 2026·1 min read
Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo

Mozilla revoked the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy was mistakenly committed to one of its private code repositories. The key is used to confirm a downloaded tarball came from Mozilla and was not tampered with.

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