firefox and bad ssl certificates

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 22:05 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2008 20:34, HggdH wrote:
> 
> > 100% with you. But it all has to start with education, not just forcing
> > a new feature down the user's throat. For most casual users, this
> > education is -- from my own experience with casual and theoretically
> > technical users -- not easy. And I do understand X509 & friends.
> >
> > On this point, I wonder if we are just making it a bit harder what most
> > users have been doing for ever. All we will get is grumbling, *unless*
> > we also provide clear, short, nice, reasonable, explanations.
> >
> > Ah well.
> >
> 
> While we're on this topic, I think point number 5 in this essay bears 
> re-reading:
> 
> http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
> 
> Scott K

But point #4 says "hacking is cool" is dumb...though there'd be no Linux
kernel or GNU tools without hackers.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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