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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Internet security.
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:48:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522DD1A1.9020802@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCFWSja+uYL3oxX=jwhcYDq0O=c3x5GMkctduOtJK7Y86A@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/09/2013 02:50 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
>     [2]
>     http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/why_im_against_ca-signed_certificates.php
>     .
> 
> 
> I like to state some of what you say here as "website certificates are
> only as trusted as the LEAST trustworthy CA in the trusted certificate
> store"

Right, and most of them you wouldn't even consider trustworthy a priori.
If the NSA can hack or "persuade" *any* of them, every single website on
the net is compromised.

Here's a list of the ones included with Firefox:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/included/index.html

The ones in the USA, we already know, can be forced to do whatever under
gag order. Of the ones outside the USA, well, I see a couple that belong
to countries where I would be executed for the things I did this weekend.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-09 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-09  1:33 [gentoo-user] Internet security Dale
2013-09-09  2:05 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-09  5:28   ` Mick
2013-09-09 13:42     ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-09 18:07       ` Mick
2013-09-09 19:24         ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-10  5:33           ` Mick
2013-09-09  6:50   ` Adam Carter
2013-09-09 13:48     ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2013-09-09  7:19   ` Pavel Volkov
2013-09-09 14:00     ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-09 17:36       ` Pavel Volkov
2013-09-09 17:51         ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-09  5:37 ` Mick
2013-09-09  9:36 ` thegeezer
2013-09-09 11:08   ` Bruce Hill
2013-09-09 11:22     ` thegeezer
2013-09-09 14:28   ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-09 15:30     ` thegeezer
2013-09-09 16:04       ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-09 16:41         ` thegeezer
2013-09-09 15:30 ` Dale

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