On: Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

[contravariant]

Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but doesn't is seem that this kind of problem is exactly the kind of problem where a blockchain solution would be useful?

Or at least more useful than the 'when all you have is a hammer' style applications of blockchains.

[simias → contravariant]

Given that you have a clear authority here (Mozilla) I don't see why you'd query a blockchain instead of querying signatures.mozilla.org

As always Blockchains are a good solution only for a tiny group of problems.

[semi-extrinsic → simias]

> As always Blockchains are a good solution only for a tiny group of problems.

Flowchart here: http://philippe.ameline.net/images/ShouldYouUseBlckchn.jpg