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RSA Boycot Group Sets Up Rival Conference

Posted by samzenpus on from the try-us-instead dept.

judgecorp writes "The group of security experts who urged people to boycot the RSA conference (over allegations that the security firm RSA has taken a $10 million bribe from the NSA to weaken the security of its products) have put together a rival conference called TrustyCon just down the road from San Francisco's Moscone Center, where the EMC-owned firm will have its conference at the end of February."

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  1. Spelling by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    The word is boycott.

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  2. Re:Better Hope ... by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know you can generate a certificate in Keychain and distribute that out of band, then send encrypted email using apple mail. Obviously both you and your recipients need to do this if you want to do anything more complicated than simply signing your mail.

    The thing that I'm upset about is that Apple still uses the compromised Comodo root for the certificates they use to sign patches with...

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