Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know?

An anonymous reader writes "Recent reports from around the net suggest that SSL certificate chain for gmail has either changed this week, or has been widely compromised. Even less-than-obvious places to look for information, such as Google's Online Security Blog, are silent. The problem isn't specific to gmail, of course, which leads me to ask: What is the canonically-accepted out-of-band means by which a new SSL certificate's fingerprint may be communicated and/or verified by end users?"

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[hairyfeet]

And this is why since they updated their privacy rules I no longer recommend Chrome and have switched to Bing search, I don't have any other MSFT services so they can't get anything other than my searches and frankly they way Google has been bugging the piss out of me lately to use my RealID, even on the phone, has really turned me off.

For those that like Chrome but not the phone home there are several choices, I personally use Comodo Dragon as it has several added security features, then there is SWIron, Chromium, or if you want to go back to the source and care about cross platform there is QTWeb which is just what it sounds like, Webkit with a QT based UI. This is one big advantage we have over the days of just IE and NS, today there are so many browsers you can choose one that fits you and does what YOU want, no need to just take what the corp hands you anymore.