Comment Re:Standards (Score 1) 29
"The prescribed global standard doesn't work so we're just going to roll our own. Twice."
Great. Thanks for that. Not "we will penalise sites that don't allow OSCP pinning because we think it's necessary" but "bugger this, we'll apply our own definition of what can be trusted or not to every user"
The reason for using this alternative to the alternative is because any kind of blacklist-based security doesn't work. It rates #2 in the six dumbest ideas in computer security, with default-allow (which arguably is the problem that blacklists are trying to deal with) at #1. First there were CRLs, which don't work. They were replaced with OCSP, which doesn't work. Now we have cert blacklists, which are fairly recent so they haven't failed often enough for it to be obvious to everyone that they don't work, but give it time...
Once they fail, the browser vendors will come back with version 4 of the dumbest idea, then version 5, and then version 6, and they'll just keep on doing the wrong thing over and over and over until eventually it starts working, dammit!