Rescorla: technical details on the recent Firefox add-on outage

Eric Rescorla has written adetailed summary of how the Firefox add-on fiasco happened, how it wasaddressed, and how a repeat might be avoided. "First, we should havea much better way of tracking the status of everything in Firefox that is apotential time bomb and making sure that we don't find ourselves in asituation where one goes off unexpectedly. We're still working out thedetails here, but at minimum we need to inventory everything of thisnature."