Mozilla Is Considering Revoking TeliaSonera Trust For Sales To Dictators

ndogg writes "Mozilla is considering pulling TeliaSonera from its list of root certificate SSL providers. They have asked for comments on this on their mailing list. They're concerned about the use of the certificates by those governments for spying on its citizens, particularly in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — where TeliaSonera operates subsidiaries or is heavily invested. Mozilla's concern is that TeliaSonera has possibly issued certificates that allow hardline government servers to masquerade as legitimate websites — so-called man-in-the-middle attacks — and decrypt web traffic. This alleged activity would contradict Mozilla's policy against 'knowingly issuing certificates without the knowledge of the entities whose information is referenced in the certificates.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Frankly the US government is just as nasty and corrupt as the rest, read general Butler's "War is a racket" speech sometime. That speech is nearly a century old and could have been taken from the current papers, wars all over the place for the benefit of a few rich people and corps.

Smedley Butler was, if not an outright Communist, at least a fellow traveller. His views on American's wars of the era are therefore tainted by the particular ideology that gripped him at that time, and he was not a dispassionate commentator.

With the benefit of hindsight, Americans today can look back and see that US military intervention in Central America was not just stimulated by the desire to benefit a few corporations, but a wise political decision to expand America's power and reduce the threat from other countries. (Sure, some corporations were helped, but so what; if there were material rewards to reap from our foreign interventions, then certainly they should go to our boys.) And America's increasing muscle didn't benefit just "a few rich people", but everyone: American prosperity during the 20th century, things like the rise of the middle class, depended on keeping Latin America poor and subservient.