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Comment Re:Only as secure as the gate-keeper. (Score 1) 280

This isn't really a browser issue.

The browser is going "Show me that this cert is valid for paypal.com" and the CA is going "Here it is, for paypay.com" , at least as far as the browser is concerned.
  This is no more a flaw then if the CA just started letting anyone buy certs for paypal.com.

Having multiple CAs (and cheap CAs) is a good thing, but we're only ever secure with ssl as the least secure CA.

As far as I understand, it's more like:

* Browser gets cert for Paypal.com\0.badguy.com from the server

* Browser reads domain from cert, but does so invalidly, and only gets Paypal.com

* etc

Comment Re:Well that's just fantastic (Score 1) 150

But when are they going to patch these security flaws on my 2.1 ipod? Paying for an update is ridiculous, especially when it fixes critical security flaws. I sure hope apple does the right thing.

Sure, paying for a security update alone is a bit strange, but really — it's only $10 and gives you so much more. Besides, it's not like your iPod has been taken over by viruses due to the bugs.

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Comcast Blocks Web Browsing 502

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."
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Submission + - 35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks (socialcomputingmagazine.com)

jg21 writes: Social Computing Magazine has just published a list of thirty-five perspectives on online social networking reflecting how protean and difficult to pin down the phenomenon is. It was compiled by Malene Charlotte Larsen, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark, who has been doing research on Danish youngsters and online social networking. She ends with an open request for further perspectives.

[From the article "I must say that I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures to adults."]

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