full-disclosure - Re: [GOATSE SECURITY] Clench: Goatse's way to say "screw you" to certificate authorities

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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:12:13 +0200
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com>
Cc: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GOATSE SECURITY] Clench: Goatse's way to say
 "screw you" to certificate authorities

We want a certain X people from a certain X chan dictating how some X
software is fully trusted and can run on my computer.

Call me paranoid, but I stick to the #1 rule of never ever trusting the public.

I'd rather have a company pay some good bucks to get their hands on a
highly trusted certificate than kids who's aim in life is wiping as
much hard disks as possible.
Which also answers why those $10-$20 assholes does a better job than
the kids we all know about...

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:56 PM, BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony@...il.com> wrote:
>> un-tl;dr abstract: SSL is broken. Certificate authorities only exist
>> to let the US, Chinese, Turkish, Brazilian etc etc government or
>> Russian mob spy on you (whichever is interested first). Well, I guess
>> they also exist to line the pockets of assholes who want $10-50 for
>> pushing a button.
>
> Amen. This is why we should use and support web of trust style systems.
>
> CA Cert for SSL.
>
> GPG for most other things.
>
> BMF
>
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