Microsoft supporting tyrants?

Torsten Grote Torsten.Grote at fsfe.org
Tue Mar 22 21:26:13 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 22 March 2011 21:08:31 Thomas Jost wrote:
> So this is really nothing new. And the issue is certainly not specific
> to Microsoft, it's really about trust in the CAs whose certificates are
> bundled with every browser

As far as I know the SSL situation is even worse. The certs in your browser 
don't show all the CA's it trusts since each CA can sign sub-CA's whose certs 
your browser also silently accepts.

Torsten
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