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I never find this kind of stuff funny... it's more snark than humor. It's also got a weird racial tinge on the tiresome trope of a somewhat distrustful middle eastern laborer, which makes it gross.
I never find this kind of stuff funny... it's more snark than humor. It's also got a weird racial tinge on the tiresome trope of a somewhat distrustful middle eastern laborer, which makes it gross.
Classic of the genre. I remember around the time of the diginotar horrors looking at DANE and DNSSEC. As I understand it, DANE still isn't supported by browsers, and DNSSEC is still in a pitiful state.
Contemporary discussion, nearly twelve years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463762
Also:
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839315 (68 comments)
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838324 (10 comments)
Only 11 years later, Elon Musk started selling blue check marks on Twitter. Achmed was ahead of his time.
Seems quite racist to me using the stereotype of the middle eastern shady used cars dealer? Do we want such content here (I'd say no)?
So if it was Honest John you would be okay with that?
> Do we want such content here (I'd say no)?
You have 'flag' and 'downvote' buttons for this.
Seems quite racist to me using the stereotype of the middle eastern shady used cars dealer? Do we want such content here (I'd say no)?
For a long time, I've argued we need leaf certificates to be double signable. That way there can be two chains of trust for a website. Then dropping a CA doesn't matter much, since all serious parties should have multiply signed paths to various roots of trust. Hence we solve the problem of CAs becoming to big to fail. The current way cross-signing works is almost an accident, and only works for intermediate certific…
Seems quite racist to me using the stereotype of the middle eastern shady used cars dealer? Do we want such content here (I'd say no)?