You're right, it's extremely stupid to defer trust to a group of 3rd parties that have demonstrated in the past that they're not really good at verifying the identity they supposedly certify. Firefox should just have no preconfigured ca and pop up the warning with every new ca it sees, asking "do you trust verisign/thawte/whatever? Here are some links about their track record." Alas, users are stupid and they'll just click OK anyway.
Hey, Nokia is actually contributing developers and code to various projects, so they're not the kind that just takes without giving back. Maybe you're confusing them with broadcom.
These "free" ISPs aren't really free, since you pay through the nose for your phone calls. Another poster mentioned the Campaign for unmetered telecommunications You should know that there are many similar groups in Europe asking for a flat rate and together they have organized the European Telecom Boycott Day on 6/6/1999. Visit http://www.telecom.eu.org and, please, support the boycott.
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You're right, it's extremely stupid to defer trust to a group of 3rd parties that have demonstrated in the past that they're not really good at verifying the identity they supposedly certify.
Firefox should just have no preconfigured ca and pop up the warning with every new ca it sees, asking "do you trust verisign/thawte/whatever? Here are some links about their track record."
Alas, users are stupid and they'll just click OK anyway.
Hey, Nokia is actually contributing developers and code to various projects, so they're not the kind that just takes without giving back. Maybe you're confusing them with broadcom.
lazarus is aiming to produce a delphi like environment (not there yet but they're moving fast).
It's available here.
It's using Free Pascal as its base.
These "free" ISPs aren't really free, since you pay through the nose for your phone calls.
Another poster mentioned the Campaign for unmetered telecommunications
You should know that there are many similar groups in Europe asking for a flat rate and together they have organized the European Telecom Boycott Day on 6/6/1999. Visit http://www.telecom.eu.org and, please, support the boycott.