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orwellsanimal
31 December 2008 @ 09:53 am
E-commerce bound for hell in handbasket  
I had a chat with someone who was expressing concerned over this very same possibility, though this concern was expressed in relation to applications for Open-CL. Whatever the case, 200 PS3 consoles appear to have done the job.

From ZD Zero Day

SSL Broken! Hackers exploit weakness in MD5 cryptography to create rogue CA cert.
 
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Lucid[info]lucidp2k on December 31st, 2008 03:12 pm (UTC)
Always found "SSL" to be an illusion of security anyways. Always laughed when clients required it.

"THEY CAN R SNIFFZ OUR PACKETZ WITHOUT SSL!??! THEY STEALZ OURZ CREDIT CARDZ OMG!"

"...use AJAX to encrypt the form data with SHA1 before the form is submitted? Compare encrypted passwords to each other, not plain text passwords to each other? You're an idiot?"
Blank[info]orwellsanimal on December 31st, 2008 03:31 pm (UTC)
LOL

The padlock has been the obese TSA agent of web security, web scripts can lodge certs into local cert stores. If somebody is going to phish you, a SHA-1 rogue cert can be used just as easily.

Now since that is settled.

GIVEZ MEZ YOURS PLAYSTATIONZ!
Lucid[info]lucidp2k on December 31st, 2008 03:46 pm (UTC)
LOL, the only people this will effect are stupid people.

Whom deserve it anyways for eating up all my intarwebz bandarwidthz.
 
 

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