mikemaccana

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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Replying from old openid account due to rate limit: That's why the jurisdiction is shown in the address bar. However it'd be worth seeing how effective that is.
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit) There's a specific person that's well known on HN that mentioned a pirate site had an EV cert at Edge conf, implying they shouldn't have been able to get one. They have a r
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(Author here, replying with my old openid account due to rate limit.) The 'freshness' is possible because it's a domain validated certificate - domain validated certificates are < 1 min, and normally cheap or free, as all
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
You're right. Edited.
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike from CertSimple here (using old openid account as my other one is replying too fast): StartSSL don't do EV (edit: they do, just not for $60). We only do EV, since we actually identifying companies is how SSL should have always b
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike here using old openid account, as I'm replying too fast. The CA handles the verification, hence the difference in price. Symantec/Verisign is the most expensive, Digicert is in the middle, Comodo and the Symantec budget brand
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike from CertSimple, replying from ye-olde-openid account: Wildcards don't exist for EV (non-EV certs allow you to register *.whatever.com, then make github.com.whatever.com). Totally agreed re SANS. I'd like that to change too.
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Official guidelines are here: https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/EV-V1_5_2Libre.pdf Certificates usually use the x509v3 object for 'Jurisdiction of Business Name' and this would point to the nationa
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
No, not really. I have code written for the Comodo API from before I spoke to Digicert. I would get a MUCH larger cut for that than I do Digicert. > Or would GeoTrust somehow force you to participate in that IE5 upsell if you were to sel
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike from CertSimple here, from my old openid account (as I'm replying too fast with my other one): > $469 USD per year? No. All certificates are two years - the big price is the total. I've made this more apparent on the front
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike, openid account here: Feedback heard loud and clear - prices are now front and center on the site.
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
Mike from CertSimple here on old openid account, main one is submitting too fast: We're not a big fan of trust logos either - though if you do want one it's included. As well as the tests you mentioned, usertesting.com ran some te
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
(Mike here, replying with my old openid account as I'm submitting too fast) > Clicking on "Get Started" scrolls up and expects me to start filling the form. Sleazy, very sleazy. Hi there - the only way to 'Get started
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by mikemaccana 12y ago
(Mike here: posting from my old openid account because 'you're submitting too fast') DigiCert are indeed our parter CA - they do Facebook, GitHub, Stripe and Yahoo's SSL certs. We looked at a number of CAs (and actually
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
>Seriously I have to go lookup what each of these acronyms are in order to figure out how my privacy is being violated? No, you don't. This is mentioned in the article.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Really? I bought the shiny blue liquid vista pearl looked a lot like a poor, and very self conscious, attempt to imitate their competitors.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Interestingly, Chrome and Gmail do strange things when you MITM attack them. Try enabling Charles Proxy and watch all he requests to securebriwsing.Google.com.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Html5test.com scores? I've got a new android phone but it won't run chrome.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Ifconfig will fail completely in some cases. Eg, an alias on a vlan on a bond.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Oh that's neat. Thankyou.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
He said open standard, not FLOSS.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Then use 'their'.
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Google oauth2 endpoint changes are live today. Your apps may break.(googlecode.blogspot.com)
1 points by mikemaccana 15y ago|0 comments
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Yep. As someone who wants to know if they have CarrierIQ, my main concern is whether I have CarrierIQ.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
They don't pay as much attention to UI as these guys. I'd rather use the better app.
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Django nonrel is no longer being maintained(groups.google.com)
26 points by mikemaccana 15y ago|3 comments
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Have you used ICS? They don't have a consistent icon theme, there's multiple messenger apps with different look and feels, the UI favors Tron era styling over actually using the capabilities of a modern display, and the widget adding has a
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
Sure. The HTC hero was considered phone of the year by T3, the biggest gadget magazine in the UK, over the iPhone.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
granting privileges to a select group of people and denying then to others in particular contexts skews power even more.
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by mikemaccana 15y ago
If I was your customer, the fact you're trying to get systemtap running on ubuntu rather than RHEL or a derivative would concern me. Someone should really write an article on using dtrace on a BSD where it's patchable, but not officially su

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