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I think you're forgetting the 99% of internet users who are nowhere near computer-literate enough to make anything approaching not-insane decisions about who to
by superuser2 11y ago
I think you're forgetting the 99% of internet users who are nowhere near computer-literate enough to make anything approaching not-insane decisions about who to trust. I'm not a fan of the CAs either, but trust is a really hard problem and surfacing it to people who would just as easily try to run viagra.exe on their Macs is unlikely to make the situation better.
- michaelbuckbee 11y agoCompletely agreed - the current system of CAs is designed to blunt phishing attacks and secure cc transactions over the wire and it mostly succeeds at that. Where it fails is as a protection against state sponsored scrutiny or a serious direct hacking attempt.