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I think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?
by clueless 16y ago
I think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?
- wmf 16y agoIf you combined these evil SSL certs with the right BGP hijack, you could read a lot of people's email and such. And since reading mail lets you reset passwords on everything else, he could have basically owned millions of people.
- kragen 16y agoBGP, or DNS, or your DSL modem or cable modem, or an open access point, or the router in an internet cafe, or...