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It's sad because they can do good investigative journalism. They took the lead in the Panama Papers case, the hockey canada and Miller sex scandals, recent Indian and Chinese inter…

My guess is that the legislators are completely ignorant of the technical implication of weakening the entire chain and the media are just as ignorant. It's actually quite defensib…

I like toasts. Taste better than people.

Matter iot devices are IPv6 only. Apple TV, Amazon Echo/eero, Google Nest are all Thread/Matter hub. Ikea just started to selling cheap Thread devices. It will soon be mainstream t…

I didn't express myself well but what I meant by force is that by building a standardized to automate way manage certificate, ACME imposed itself and became mandatory. Previously, …

They are definitively not the most shady organization in the CA/Browser Forum.

Not sure if there is a point to "keep things in Europe" when it come to certificate authority. - LetsEncrypt don't have the private key tied to your certificate - Any of the Certif…

It was a red herring the entire time. At Shopify we made experiment regarding conversion between regular certs and EV before they stop being displayed and there was no significant …

Trudeau government tyranny? Give me a break

As someone who live in Quebec this make sense to me and apparently the vast majority of the population. There is more opposition to vaccine mandate to access retail store than taxi…

Go upper market.

Go upper market.

It wouldn't break encryption because you don't give away the private key when requesting a certificate from a CA. It would definitively compromise the identity/trust part of it.

This article is quite interesting but I'm not too sure why the author felt the need for such a pedantic attitude toward the guy from the video. Its presumptuous without adding much…

I wanted to go to that talk but I could make it on time. Thanks making it available online.

Why is this post get so many vote? I understand that this guy is famous for some of the stuff he did, but hey... hacker news is news for hacker, right? not news about hacker?