At 11:13 PM -0800 12/24/08, Daniel Veditz wrote: >Paul Hoffman wrote: >> At 1:16 AM +0200 12/24/08, Eddy Nigg wrote: >>> Select Preferences -> Advanced -> View Certificates -> Authorities. >>> Search for AddTrust AB -> AddTrust External CA Root and click >>> "Edit". Remove all Flags. >> >> Doesn't this seem like a better solution than "sue Mozilla for >> theoretical future damages incurred by using their free software"? >> Put more rudely, why do you expect Daddy to fix it for you when you >> can fix it yourself, more easily and more quickly, if you want to? > >Isn't that a bit like an auto maker issuing a notice "If you don't want >your car to explode in a fender bender you can crawl under the right >rear and remove the screw marked 34A on the following diagram."
It depends on what you mean by "a bit". I don't remember paying for Firefox. Nor do I remember anything in the software that made any strong assertion of the validity of all the certs that might be issued by any of the CAs in the root pile. Maybe you had a different experience. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
