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> How do you protect against a court order compelling Mozilla to serve malicious JS to a user in order to phish the password ?

It's unclear to me if it's any different from getting a court order to land malicious client-side code to extract keys directly from the browser or to phish an encryption passphrase.

I think that in either case, it will be a legal question more than a technical one which is why I won't comment more.

Here is a great example on how it's less of a technical problem and more of a legal one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute
> How do you protect against a court order compelling Mozilla to serve malicious JS to a user in order to phish the password ?

It's unclear to me if it's any different from getting a court order to land malicious client-side code to extract keys directly from the browser or to phish an encryption passphrase.

I think that in either case, it will be a legal question more than a technical one.

Here is a great example on how it's less of a technical problem and more of a legal one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_dispute

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