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  1. Re:Duh on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's all move to IPv6 and use a free certificate for every site. Or get rid of Windows XP (because IE on Windows XP is the last browser which doesn't understand, SSL-virtual hosts, called SNI).

  2. Re:I don't need to confirm my own idenity. on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    Certificate Patrol (an other Firefox add-on) could also be usefull, it tells you when a certificate has changed.

  3. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    (interresting)

  4. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    5 years ? Really ? It should be shorter (and free or close to free, have a look at how StartCOM does it's business), the reason 5 years is a bad idea is, because the bits can get guessed (brute force). This usually takes a lot of time, but it doesn't have to be and you should use a new one pretty much every year.

  5. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    You are kidding, right ? "the StartSSL certificate is included by default in Mozilla Firefox 2.x and higher". Which means it was included in 2006, any older browser should probably not be used to be safe, actually maybe not even Firefox 2.x, because it doesn't get any security updates. It is supported by every major (anywhere close to up to date) browser. Except for Opera.

  6. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    That's why browsers are starting to add things like ForceTLS, which will add an interface so you can tell the browser to only visit a site with SSL and for the website to the tell the browser (for a fixed time) to visit the site only with SSL.

  7. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    I think if it 'replaces' SSL certificates, it will be used to verify SSL-certificates or something similair. But some say, DNS is modified so much, it will be worse than the SSL-warnings. :-(

  8. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    LoL, they don't know how to distribute an internal CA ?

  9. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    You folks all know why this is right ? I mean what is the use of SSL-encryption if you don't know who your 'talking' to ?

  10. Re:AMD on Intel, NVIDIA Take Shots At CPU vs. GPU Performance · · Score: 1

    The troll did have one point, the subject, where is AMD/ATI in this article ? Didn't they also have a product in that segment ?

  11. Re:You don't have to use these services on Location Services Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    It is from applications which by default send when and where you are. In case of four squares it's the whole idea of the application.

  12. Re:Can it tell if this is the truth? on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 1

    I guess congratulations are in order ?

  13. Re:Pftt on Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    It's negative for RedHat, they get less money per user/company in the field. So you have to convince more companies/users to use your product.

    This is also a negative for the shareholders in this publicly traded company.

    On the other hand it does attract customers, which is good for RedHat and the shareholders.

  14. Re:Pftt on Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    This is the reason why RedHat targets the enterprise market.

  15. Re:64-bit on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    To bad their are problems with 32-bit applications which don't always run on it.

  16. Re:Windows 7 is actually kinda good on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Luckily it still has many other things which people can complain about. :-)

  17. Re:Already out of the 1990s on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    I'm still 'supporting' exactly one Windows 9x desktop. :-(

    It just has 2 applications though, which won't easily be moved to an other system, but a replacement is in the works.

  18. Re:1990's? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    3 cheers for the BSA ?! ;-)

  19. Re:1990s? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think anyone can confuse Windows XP with Windows ME. :-)

  20. Re:ISP accountability on Botnets Using Ubiquity For Security · · Score: 1

    Yes it was a, really bad one at that, joke

  21. Re:ISP accountability on Botnets Using Ubiquity For Security · · Score: 1

    The iPhone doesn't have a signed code only policy.

    A quote: "Apple supports two platforms. First is HTML5, open and uncontrolled platform. He says the company fully supports it and behind it 100 percent - and stresses that it’s fully open. Second platform is the App Store — a curated platform with more than 225,000 apps and calls it the most vibrant app store on the planet. Interesting reference to curated as a asset of App Store."

    The HTML5 isn't signed. ;-)

  22. Re:ISP accountability on Botnets Using Ubiquity For Security · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how this would force Microsoft to do anything.

    People will just buy a newer Microsoft operating system or even a whole new computer, to 'fix' the problems they are having.

  23. Re:Zero-day? on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    Most likely it was download through an ad-network.

  24. Re:Flash for the iPhone WHEN??? on Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    1. Youtube's owners, would be Google
    2. lookup the WebM annoucement from Google at Google I/O hint it's about On2/VP8 and Ogg and even Youtube

  25. Etherape on Visual Network Simulator To Teach Basic Networking? · · Score: 1

    If you have a machine which acts as a router to the desktops in the lab (or just a machine or 2) and you have Etherape running it will shop them what is happing. I did notice it doesn't show IPv6 yet, but it could just be a setting.

    As the "warriors of the net" these aren't to bad either:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbY8Hb6abbg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XH0VgoD5lQ