On 17/09/11 3:07 AM, M.R. wrote:
On 16/09/11 09:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
The problem is that people will probably die
due Digitar's failure.
I am not the one to defend DigiNotar, but I would not make such
dramatic assumption.
No one actively working against a government that is known to engage
in extra-legal killings will trust SSL secured e-mail to protect him
or her from the government surveillance.
IMNSHO, 1% of technically savvy users will have any view that there is a
flaw with SSL secured e-mail. Then, technically savvy users are about
1% of the general population. I'd expect around 0.01% of the population
to have this clue.
If this particular case, if
the most often repeated hypothesis of who did it and why is correct,
it was probably done for some bottom net-fishing and will likely result
with a whole bunch of "little people" with secret files that will make
them "second-class" citizens for a long, long time, ineligible for
government jobs and similar. (For instance, I'd expect them to end up
on some oriental no-fly list).
Would you be willing to bet your life on that?
iang
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