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Browsers are constantly adding features to act as Publisher-Agent, Advertiser-Agent, CA-Agent, etc. and treating being User-Agent as an afterthought...
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Replying to @RichFelker @hanno
If you know of anyone who fights harder for the user with the CAs than "the browser people", please enlighten me, because that must be a sight to behold.
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Is anyone else in a position to? Arguably Let's Encrypt's sponsors do by funding the project that will eventually bring down the CA industry, but aside from that browsers are the main party with any influence.
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I agree they've done some good things and are improving, but it's a constant battle getting them to do the right thing in these areas (not just CA, thinking more about Publisher/Advertiser-Agent) especially when one of the big browsers is owned by an Ad giant.
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Replying to @RichFelker @hanno
I'm lost, what has advertising got to do with EV certificates or the CA ecosystem?
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They're all places where the interests of some third party that don't match (and usually conflict with) the interests of the user are still being preserved more strongly than the interests of the user.
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Replying to @RichFelker @hanno
Your claim was that because browser vendors haven't reached the same conclusion as
@hanno (That commercial CAs are going to die), this proves they aren't an agent for the user. I think you've moved the goalposts here, no?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I think I meant the original claim more as "here's yet another place the browsers aren't acting as an agent for the user". Perhaps "proving once again..." was a poor way of saying that.
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Replying to @RichFelker @hanno
I still don't understand, how would "[telling] the whole CA industry that it will inevitably have to go out of business" be acting as an agent for the user? I don't even know that it's true, reasonable people disagree.
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Tavis Ormandy Retweeted
For example, here is @sleevi_ disagreeing. Any argument that requires @sleevi_ to be fighting against user interests better be extremely well backed up
https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/984450984297582592 …
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