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   by lorddoig 12y ago

   Human administrators are not a feature. Chargebacks and other forms of manual intervention allow a third party to diddle with the business of two transacting parties on the instruction of a single one of them and some idea/law/re
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   by lorddoig 13y ago

   Don't get me wrong I see at least as much bad coming from this as good, I just find directing anger at the technology to be illogical and think it'd be more lucrative to direct such emotions to the root issue here which is that th
3. 183.▲
   by lorddoig 13y ago

   If you go for something other than wholesale freedom - 'freedom with restrictions' - then you find yourself in the position where there is going to have to be somebody who creates and polices those restrictions. Even if there was
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   by lorddoig 13y ago

   So the LA police have made an app that relies on voluntary contributions from free citizens to further their goals. There's no coercion here, people either choose to help the cops or not. But this article and the comments are critica
5. 185.▲
   by lorddoig 13y ago

   So we all want an open internet and personal freedoms - but not for the people who choose to be on the side of the state? I'm no state fanboy, but you can't have it both ways.
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   by lorddoig 13y ago

   A follow up for the keen and eager http://lorddoig.svbtle.com/should-we-make-a-working-group-to...
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   Should we make a working group to kill X.509?(lorddoig.svbtle.com)

   2 points by lorddoig 13y ago|1 comments
8. 188.▲
   by lorddoig 13y ago

   Again though this argument rests in people choosing to behave a certain way: CAs will choose not to go rogue because browser vendors will choose to be outraged by it. If one was to attempt to formally specify X.509 in terms of math or logic
9. 189.▲
   by lorddoig 13y ago

   So Granny huffs and puffs and calls me, trusts my key through the sexy new UI I talked about and is done with it. I specifically said that PGP may not be the solution, but what we have now is just ridiculous if you really think about it. W
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    by lorddoig 13y ago

    Good point, but will it be less than all the effort and money about to be expended in the coming months? Who knows. For the record I did say that PGP may not be the solution. The other great thing is that PGP is not just for sites but for
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    by lorddoig 13y ago

    I'm not sure this is the likely outcome. There are a lot of people out there savvy enough to not jump on the big company bandwagon - and they would be very vocal about why it's a bad idea too. I don't see your vision becomi
12. 192.▲
    by lorddoig 13y ago

    Heartbleed knocked us down, the CA system is going to make it very difficult for us to stand up straight again - that's the point.
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    Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death(lorddoig.svbtle.com)

    401 points by lorddoig 13y ago|147 comments