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Mozilla Debates Whether To Trust Chinese CA
At his Freedom to Tinker blog, Ed Felten has a thoughtful, accessible piece on the debate at Mozilla about whether Firefox, by default, should trust a Chinese certificate authority (as it has since October). Felten explains in clear language why this is significant, and therefore controversial. An excerpt: "To see why this is worrisome, let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that CNNIC were a puppet of the Chinese government. Then CNNIC's status as a trusted CA would give it the technical power to let the Chinese government spy on its citizens' 'secure' web connections. If a Chinese citizen tried to make a secure connection to Gmail, their connection could be directed to an impostor Gmail site run by the Chinese government, and CNNIC could give the impostor a cert saying that the government impostor was the real Gmail site."
The most popular browser in China is IE6. You know why? Because it runs on pirated XP best.
I'm fucking sick of people comparing the US government to the Chinese government. Get a fucking clue. The US government has made some mistakes but the Chinese government killed 30 MILLION of its citizens, it attacks protesters with tanks, executes the mentally retarded, and jails those who protest their own children's deaths at the hands of the government corruption.
Are you paid by the Chinese government to write these posts or just ignorant?
Well, I have the admit the Chinese do not have the right to die because they cannot afford medical insurance. That right is reserved to the democratic society of USA.
Laudele lor desigur m-ar mahni peste masura.
on mentally retarded children, sterilized them
oh don't be such a pussy. What is the alternative for someone with a mental age of 5, and a teenage body full of hormones? You think it is better to keep them locked up? Let them breed? Teach them "christian values"?
feeding Illinois state prisoners a diet that is known to cause organ failure
The average western school canteen does that.