However CAs has the overall responsibility of the system, as we as the users (either as end user or as content provider) rely on CAs for authentication process, not software developers. Hell we even check the authenticity of software by using keys issued by a CA in some (most??) commercial scenarios. So it is up to CAs to develop a procedural solution to the problem. For example (and I am sure that there are pitfalls here, otherwise we would not be talking about this right now. This is just a general musing about a solution.) CAs can make their keys accessible only to software that implements OCSP in a proper way and can certify this fact by issuing very short term (like 30 days) keys for software package signing. So any software provider would be required to update their software signing keys along with their regular patches. Or CA can issue regular patches to any given specific version of a software from their servers in case of a software provider's commercial failure etc...
In general I think that revocation problems are mostly caused by implementers, but solving those are issuers' problem. This requires some aggressively proactive stance from CAs but it seems they are in defence for some reason. That I do not understand.
Also as a user of Let's encrypt, I think even a very short life span, with proper tools, would cause no headache to the market. CAs need to clean up their mess.
Yes I use my headphone jack on my NB, maybe once in a month. So that was one of the reasons making me question of buying another Apple when this one eventually bite the dust. There are lots of other horror stories related to Apple computers like problematic keyboards, monitor problems usability issues related to those dynamic key thingies etc.
However, probably unknowingly, you provided the final nail for a new apple's coffin on my account. Are they going to remove fucking SD interface? Or did they already removed it from current models and I missed in the cacophony of all other problems? I am already carrying two adapters, one for HDMI and one for ethernet cable that I am forced to use in one customer's office.I do not one to add two more adapters; one for audio, one for SD....
So dear Apple; It would take a miracle to make me buy any new Apple NB when my current one dies. I would change my battery when needed, I would upgrade disk and RAM if it comes to that and sorry you lost a customer who on average uses three computers and you lost anybody who would listen my advice, starting with my own company and advisees. Oh shit, I would need to find a stable Linux desktop, which also would be a miracle.
As mentioned in my other post below somewhere, I am not claiming MS's history is as clean as a milk white sheet and it is safer to assume if they saw any profit potential it is/was natural for them to break things instead of spending the same effort to improve the system. My point was MS is better than Facebook, as it is almost impossible to fall down to their level...
MS' reputation is far more better than Facebook's
Does that expression contain anything like "totally trust worthy" or even "trust". If in your inner grading "trust worthy" is just above whatever the level you see Facebook at, that is the problem. I know pimps and government officers who are above Facebook's level, which does not mean they are trust worthy.
For the Skype, I have three problems (client performance, network performance and recently market penetration), none of which are directly related to privacy. I am/was not very concerned about privacy related to communications I have/had via Skype. That is because I was not expecting to be secured against eavesdroppers with that platform to begin with...
If you can bother to check following URLs in your research in order to reduce your ignorance, your would see that WhatsApp has a serious user base, especially in countries with oppressive governments or countries with populations valuing their privacy (https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-statistics/) (https://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-user-whatsapp/)
Claiming WhatsApp being used by children however is more harmful, than being just idiotic, because you are normalising the degeneration of a tool used by people with actual concerns about privacy. I do not know which country you are from but WhatsApp is being used by more people than actual phone users in your country.
Facebook after their share purchase, is in the process of removing all these features from WhatsApp. So you do not need to be downvoted to oblivion but need to learn to research and remember, preferably some thinking would also be useful.
Skype had no such features/promises so not providing those would not be a problem. However with WhatsApp the promise was basically a paid, hassle free, secure and reliable alternative to SMS, and VoIP later on, services. These days I would very much like to use Skype, and waiting for a very big scandal with WhatsApp in order to see an increase in Skype penetration again. MS' reputation is far more better than Facebook's, and that is something you do not see or hear very often here in
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