777532 - Governmental trojan Claims to be Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketing :: Trademark Violations, task)

Description

[Jan Bambach [:Jan]]

According to this tweet, a sample of a governmental software to spy people claims to be Firefox: https://twitter.com/mikko/status/228157834980913152

Comment 1

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

I see no further proof of the screenshot actually being legitimate, but the person who tweeted it (mikko) is the CEO of F-Secure, which makes me more inclined to believe such a statement.

Comment 2

[Liz Compton [:liz]]

Gerv - Do you think this is more of a potential MPL violation than trademark issue?

Tomcat - If this is a potential trademark issue, could you check out the "FinSpy governmental trojan sample" to see if it is violating our trademark in any way?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Liz: if they aren't using MPLed code, it can't be an MPL violation. I only have the tweet to go on, but I assume this trojan isn't based on the Firefox codebase, it has just adopted our name. Which would put it in trademark territory.

I don't know details about FinSpy, but if we can be certain who is responsible for it, I can see a case for a trademark suit, if we want to bring one :-)

Gerv

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

(In reply to Liz Compton from comment #2)
> Gerv - Do you think this is more of a potential MPL violation than trademark
> issue?
> 
> Tomcat - If this is a potential trademark issue, could you check out the
> "FinSpy governmental trojan sample" to see if it is violating our trademark
> in any way?

Hi Liz (and Gerv) will check it out. Do not have a current sample of the trojan but will see if i get one in a safe vm to check out for trademark issues

Comment 5

[Liz Compton [:liz]]

This was taken care of long ago, I just forgot to close the bug.