EFF System To Warn of Certificate Breaches

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @08:47AM from the early-warning-system dept.

snydeq writes "With its distributed SSL Observatory, the Electronic Frontier Foundation hopes to detect compromised certificate authorities and warn users about attacks, InfoWorld reports. 'The EEF, along with developers at the Tor Project and consulting firm iSec Partners, has updated its existing HTTPS Everywhere program with the ability to anonymously report every certificate encountered. The group will analyze the data so that it can detect any rogue certificates — and by extension, compromised authorities — its users encounter, says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director for the EFF.'"

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Re:HTTPS Everywhere by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-21 09:08 · Score: 0, Troll

I know Firefox is unpopular lately, but among the major browsers it stands out for Add-on support.
But not for long! With the upcoming fast release schedule, add-ons will be outdated and cannot run on the latest version of Firefox when they've been updated to support what was the current version of Firefox. Add-ons will be supported for the version of Firefox just before the current.
Yes, Firefox will move and make a new release just before devs fix their addons to support the old one!