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Re: [Full-disclosure] [GOATSE SECURITY] Clench: Goatse's way to say "screw you" to certificate authorities
- To: Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] [GOATSE SECURITY] Clench: Goatse's way to say "screw you" to certificate authorities
- From: BMF <badmotherfsckr@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:56:30 -0700
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> un-tl;dr abstract: SSL is broken. Certificate authorities only exist
> to let the US, Chinese, Turkish, Brazilian etc etc government or
> Russian mob spy on you (whichever is interested first). Well, I guess
> they also exist to line the pockets of assholes who want $10-50 for
> pushing a button.
Amen. This is why we should use and support web of trust style systems.
CA Cert for SSL.
GPG for most other things.
BMF
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