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Security quotes of the week

Security quotes of the week

Posted Apr 14, 2011 9:30 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

Moxie is -absolutely- right. The focus should not be mainly on who to trust, because trust is transient: it can be earned, and lost.

Instead, we want a system where it's easy and practical to add new trusted organizations, OR remove ones *not* trusted.

Ideally, this choice should be open to both website-owners, browser-makers and browser-users. And the choice should be -practical-

Sure, you can remove Verisign from your browsers list of trusted CAs today, but doing so merely gives you a nasty warning (and no alternative way of establishing identity) on a large fraction of websites, so it's not a -practical- thing to do.


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