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Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?



On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:43:34AM +0000, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:
> Where do get the idea cacert uses popup's ?
> 
> The only things states in RDL that user has to  be informed about the copyright

Read the previous post, and please avoid top-posting. This post is turning out
weirdly because of that.

I've added some more context to the quote below to make it more obvious what his
response was to.


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: paul.is.wise@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.wise@gmail.com] Namens Paul Wise
> Verzonden: woensdag 2 april 2014 08:47
> Aan: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Onderwerp: Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?
> 
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Wise wrote:

> > > I've also asked Mozilla to give plain HTTP connections at least as much
> > > warnings as self-signed certificates (which would probably mean no
> > > warnings for either of them), but I don't think they'll listen.
> >
> > I think they are constrained by the browser market; if they add 
> > annoying popups and other browser vendors don't then they will 
> > probably lose market share. This is the fundamental problem with web 
> > security; the wider user population wants things to 'work', anything 
> > that gets in the way tends
> 
> ... not to get implemented.
> 

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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