Behaviour of Firefox for untrusted certificates

Bryan Quigley gquigs at gmail.com
Fri May 2 20:08:09 BST 2008


Sorry, I suppose this discussion was closed.  Oops

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Blocking untrusted certificates is more important than usability.
>
> If organizations want to actually protect the security of their (and your)
> data they NEED to not be doing self-signing.
> Doing it any other way is giving a false impression of protection and
> authentication.
> We want real security, not security theater.
>
> Having said that I believe they have made it a bit better in the
> nightlies, using a different picture with a security guard
> checking documentation or something.
>
> -Bryan
>
>
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