and here I thought you'd be tweeting escapism today to try to bring good news to our TL. 
With Symantec's acquisition of Blue Coat, a root CA will now be selling carrier-grade SSL decryption solutions to governments worldwide. 
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when you have the encryption turned off at basic key restraints what is the point of decryption.
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I'm in no way implying Symantec would compromise their integrity (or could get away with it in practice), just making an observation.
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to be fair good security means always considering worst case scenarios.
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Same ol' Symantec. They got outed for handing offensive virus technology to China in 1999-2001: http://Vmyths.com/china-syndrome
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DNSSEC + DANE solves the problem of malicious root CAa. It's absurd it doesn't have wider adoption.
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@madsushi this is both good and bad.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@KendraSerra If I’ve distrusted Blue Coat certs by default, will this change anything?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SwiftOnSecurity Nobody ever would dare 2 imply Symantec doing CG-SSL-MitM for governments given their recent upright market contributions.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I was just getting used to blue t-shirts and now I face a yellow-shirt future. Go
@UCBerkeley colors!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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