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Comment Re:Is the board game industry... (Score 1) 185

No, because those games are made by different companies. Parker Brothers has no incentive to get people to play Settlers of Catan, as they'd then lose a customer. Sony, on the other hand, gets a cut of every PS3 game sold, so it's in their best interest for them to transition their customers from buying one casual game per year to buying a new FPS every month.

Comment Re:Geee! (Score 1) 105

No Certificate Authority worth anything would undermine their integrity in this fashion

Thanks to how browsers handle SSL certificates, they don't need to get the signing key from a reputable CA, they just need to get one from any CA approved by your browser.

any law that would force them to do so in certain circumstances is effectively giving the government the right to commit forgery in the name of justice

Thanks to some of the provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act, the FBI can send out a National Security Letter and force a CA to turn over their private key. It's unlikely that the CA would publicly disclose that their key had been compromised, as that would be bad for business.

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