[liberationtech] What happened to Prism? (was Re: Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?)

[Al Billings]

> On Jan 17, 2015, at 1:06 PM, hellekin <hellekin at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > I’m pretty sure it was because a single person worked on it and there was
> > not a lot of impetus to continue. Anyone here could pick it up again since
> > it is an open source project...
> >
> *** Yet there's not much interest either in the Mozilla Foundation,
> otherwise it wouldn't have been abandoned.  Am I the only one who kind
> of misses it, or did I miss some important drawback that would explain
> why having a specific process run to a specific site in full-screen a
> bad idea?

Lots of people miss lots of things. At the end of the day, the Mozilla Project has more work than there are people to do the work. People prioritize and actively select what they want to work on. I would guess that things like Firefox OS and Firefox the browser are considered more important things by the people capable of contributing.

Certainly, no one would interfere, and some might even help, if you revived the Prism efforts. It is an open source project after all.

Al