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How many of the most recent failures have come to light as a result of a failed audit, and how many were due to a post-audit, outrage-generating violation of ba
by Karunamon 9y ago
How many of the most recent failures have come to light as a result of a failed audit, and how many were due to a post-audit, outrage-generating violation of basic best practice and common sense?
- teraflop 9y agoThe whole point of auditing is to detect problems before they become big, embarrassing, messy failures that put users at risk. If you hang out on mozilla.dev.security.policy for a while, you'll see plenty of examples of audits exposing weaknesses or sloppiness on the part of CAs, and receiving the resulting pushback from browser vendors. Here's the most recent example I've found: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/Mezqdljjerc https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla....