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

[BMF <badmotherfsckr () gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony () gmail 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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