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From: mingdao <gentoo-dev@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:02:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131105170217.GR22282@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52791F2E.2020704@orlitzky.com>

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:39:10AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 
> You should disable OCSP anyway. In Firefox, it's under,
> 
>   Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption -> Validation
> 
> The OCSP protocol is itself is vulnerable to MITM attacks, which is cute
> when you consider its purpose.
> 
> Moreover, it sends the address of every website you visit to a third
> party, which is the real reason to disable it IMO.

Thanks for the information, Michael. My Firefox had a slightly different $PATH
as shown in the attached screenshot.

	Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Validation

www-client/firefox-24.1.0-r1

(didn't do the upgrade to www-client/firefox-25.0-r1 today due to unstable
libpng-1.6.6 being pulled with the new subslot philosophy)
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05  3:30 [gentoo-dev] friendly reminder wrt net virtual in init scripts William Hubbs
2013-11-05 14:49 ` mingdao
2013-11-05 15:26   ` Tom Wijsman
2013-11-05 16:39   ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-11-05 17:02     ` mingdao [this message]
2013-11-05 17:14       ` mingdao
2013-11-06  6:00     ` Daniel Campbell
2013-11-06 19:11     ` Thomas D.
2013-11-06 20:13       ` mingdao
2013-11-06 21:40         ` [gentoo-dev] OCSP Was: " Duncan
2013-11-07  1:00           ` Thomas D.
2013-11-07 10:14             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-07  0:37         ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas D.
2013-11-06 20:37       ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-07  1:00       ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2013-11-07  1:36         ` [gentoo-dev] OCSP was: " Alex Xu
2013-11-07  2:17           ` Gordon Pettey
2013-11-07  2:14         ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas D.

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