Comment by takeda
9 years ago
If it was a promo, it would be a real bad promo. I did not watch Mr Robot and that quote did not made me aware of it until people started referencing it here.
The extension is for shield study, when you install Firefox for the first time it asks if you want to take part in it (it is enabled by default though)
Mr Robot is a tv show repeatedly showing how you can pwn other people computer by pushing seemingly innocuous code.
It has been praised for its technical accuracy, basically the show warns us about exactly what mozilla did as this could be exploited to hack into computers.