Re: IDNA and security
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:16:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
And if you have trusted that little padlock with anything important
anytime recently without at least making sure you have reasonable
insurance, you've not been paying attention.
Welcome to the internet. Just getting users to verify that they have the
little padlock and that the name is right has been a decade-long battle
that is far from won. Anyone who thinks that Joe User is going to dig
through the CA information in addition to looking at the padlock icon
and the location string is just nuts.
Mike Stone
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