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Mozilla Discontinues Persona Password Security Service

In 2012, Mozilla changed the name of BrowserID to Persona to help brand the technology and encourage adoption. In 2014, Mozilla decided that it would no longer put full-time developers on the project after realizing that adoption wasn’t very high. While Mozilla stopped funding full-time developer work, it still committed to paying for the underlying operational and security infrastructure that enables Persona.

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