nixCraft 🐧 on Nostr: Damn. A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a ...
Damn. A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a presumably-unauthorized certificate for google.com:
https://follow.agwa.name/notice/AoZSMI38xcA3TrN1smAll security practices in the world are useless if one of the most visited sites such as Google gets a unauthorized TLS certificate issued. How this still exists in 2024 is beyond me.
Published at
2024-12-01 06:20:54Event JSON
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"content": "Damn. A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a presumably-unauthorized certificate for google.com: https://follow.agwa.name/notice/AoZSMI38xcA3TrN1sm\n\nAll security practices in the world are useless if one of the most visited sites such as Google gets a unauthorized TLS certificate issued. How this still exists in 2024 is beyond me.",
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