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Security in Depth; the first layer of addons.mozilla.org

Discussing the security measures of a public facing and popular website is usually taboo. Often owners are unsure they are following best practices, prefer not to draw attention to their site, or hope that they can maintain security through the obscurity of their code. At Mozilla we are fortunate to offer nearly all of the [...]

AMO brings new levels of pedantry to Mozilla Webdev

And we love it. When we first started writing AMO in PHP we agreed to follow the PEAR coding standards and left it at that. Four years and thousands of lines of code later it’s roughly true, but there are some obvious mistakes and oversights. The main problem is that there is no automation for [...]