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| visits | member for | 1 year |
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| stats | profile views | 6 |
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May 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 19 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 5 |
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Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? I'm rather unfamiliar with the technical side of SSL, but if I'm not mistaken this was a human error. Are there any SSL alternatives/improvements that can eliminate the possibility of human errors by certificate authorities? And then I'm not even considering the possibilities for hackers and governments to sabotage the system... |
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Jan 5 |
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Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? @DeerHunter: If I've ever visited a spoofed Google domain that abused this certificate, Firefox would have displayed "Verified by: Turktrust" in the SSL popup, right? |
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Dec 12 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Nov 21 |
accepted | Is snail mail or HTTPS webmail safer for sensitive information? |
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Nov 20 |
asked | Is snail mail or HTTPS webmail safer for sensitive information? |
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Nov 6 |
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Which security risks are associated with alternative DNS providers? Moral of that story: don't install root certificates if you're not really, really sure what you're doing? |
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Nov 5 |
accepted | Which security risks are associated with alternative DNS providers? |
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Nov 5 |
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Which security risks are associated with alternative DNS providers? Expanding on that first point: this would only be the case on websites that already trigger a security warning in my browser, right? I haven't added any exceptions. |
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Nov 5 |
asked | Which security risks are associated with alternative DNS providers? |
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Oct 16 |
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Google Account: implications of using application-specific passwords Could you back this up with some references? That's not how I thought this worked. |
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Oct 9 |
awarded | Critic |
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Oct 5 |
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Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? @Ramhound: are the costs for such a certificate relative to the size of their business? If not, I'd assume that the cost of such a certificate is only a drop in the bucket for them. |
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Oct 5 |
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Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? It's not like they don't have the money to go through the additional hassle of getting an extended validity certificate. It might stop people like me from being worried if they see '(unknown)'. |
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Oct 5 |
accepted | Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? |
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Oct 4 |
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Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? Google, one of the world's biggest tech companies, doesn't have one? That's weird. Some other well-known sites like PayPal do have them. |
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Oct 4 |
asked | Firefox lists '(unknown)' as the owner of google.com. Is my connection insecure? |
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Oct 3 |
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Can a VPN decrypt my SSL traffic? Well, it's not always clear whether a hostile source is involved. I'm no security expert, so I cannot screen software-dependent VPN providers. I can see if they list a physical address, look up what security experts are saying about them and check that their installers carry a valid certificate that was issued by a trusted provider. But are services like Hotspot Shield, HideMyAss or Witopia hostile? I wouldn't know. I can't analyze every registry change, every network packet they send/receive and so forth. I don't have the time, patience and knowhow. |
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Oct 2 |
awarded | Commentator |
