firefox and bad ssl certificates

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 22:14, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> 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.

Different definition of hackers.

Scott K