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This'll be amazing for phishers and spear phishers - just use CloudFlare, and every user you're targeting will have the green padlock.
by vertex-four 12y ago
This'll be amazing for phishers and spear phishers - just use CloudFlare, and every user you're targeting will have the green padlock.
- majke 12y agoTor will be amazing for child pornography and terrorists! Come on, vertex-four, every single thing in the universe you do can be turned upside down. TV == violence, telephone == annoying calls, etc. Please have a faith in humanity and give us some optimism. I'm sure SSL can be used for good as well!
- vertex-four 12y agoIt can be used for good - I never said it couldn't. I have no doubt that this will be used for much good. It's simply that it'll also be used for a fairly significant amount of bad, and it's worth pointing that out so that we can know that we might have to retrain users that "green padlock" does not necessarily equal "safe" (not that it ever did, but it was often a close enough approximation).
- LordIllidan 12y agoGiven that ssl certificates are free nowadays (e.g. https://www.startssl.com/ https://www.startssl.com/), how was this not an issue before?
- feld 12y agostartssl is convenient but they force you to pay to revoke your certificates. I've heard rumors of startssl being close to getting on blacklists due to this behavior -- tons of certs were never revoked after heartbleed, for example.
- nknighthb 12y agoWhy would a phisher want to revoke their certificate?