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Black Hat Presentation Highlights SSL Encryption Flaws

Posted by timothy on from the well-hey-nothin's-perfect dept.

nk497 writes "Hackers at the Black Hat conference have shown that SSL encryption isn't as secure as online businesses would like us to think. Independent hacker Moxie Marlinspike showed off several techniques to fool the tech behind the little padlock on your screen. He claimed that by using a real world attack on several secure websites such as PayPal, Gmail, Ticketmaster and Facebook, he garnered 117 email accounts, 16 credit card numbers, seven PayPal logins and 300 other miscellaneous secure logins."

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  1. Oh god by LordKaT · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone fix the summary before my brain melts.

    1. Re:Oh god by gnick · · Score: 4, Funny

      You simply misunderstood the summary - It's fine the way it is.

      Independent hacker Moxie Marlinspike showed off several techniques to get fool the tech behind the little padlock on your screen.

      "fool the tech" is a little bot that hides behind the padlock on your browser, watches what you're typing, and reports it back to Moxie. Moxie has several techniques for getting Fool behind the padlock. Why Moxie named the little tech Fool, I have no idea.

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  2. Re:Disgusting grammar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you are going to criticize someone's grammar. Your post should be grammatically flawless. And your post isn't. That's laughable.

    "I thought you editor's had better standards."

  3. Re:Disgusting grammar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you are going to criticize someone's grammar. Your post should be grammatically flawless.

    If YOU are going to. criticize someone else's. Grammar. Don't use sentence fragments to do. It.

  4. Re:Disgusting grammar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, it should be, "I thought you're editor's had better standard's."

  5. Re:God forbid... by Joebert · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only question is, are you attempting to look unimportant so you will be looked over, or because you know someone will look at that as a dead give away that you're trying to "look" unimportant because you actually have a lot to hide and want to draw attention to yourself because you actually are, unimportant ?

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  6. Re:Disgusting grammar. by hairykrishna · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shatner, is that you?

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    "Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman