Ram A Moskovitz wrote:
I suspect if you had you would've gotten more responses. There are so many people online that you have to be picky about who you are willing to engage or you may find yourself spending all your time debating with people who don't really care or who's goal is not progressing the science you are interested in but rather are immersed in the pleasure of teasing you. Presentation is key. Repetition is another reason folks tend to ignore topics; if it's been discussed more than a few times that is enough to prevent most folks (again saving their time) from engaging in a discussion.
I've never had much/any response, that's the problem, I keep bringing it up and it keeps getting ignored.
Surely you would support issuing a cert to prevent a big crime or find a really bad person if you were sure that were the situaton. You are as susceptible as the employees at VeriSign of being sensitive to social issues.
See this is the thing, define "big crime", and define what jurisdiction those social issues fall under.
Are you talking about people trying to get freedom of speech in China? That's a big crime to the Chinese...
Dramatic but apparently not as effective as you hoped. Probably because dramatic presentation correlatest as highly with lack of earnest intent as it does with frustration; I think you were (are?) frustrated as your normal behavior is indicative of earnest interest in advancing social and individual causes (freedom, safety, happyness etc).
I was more frustrated by the lack of response. In the end my little rant at least elicited responses, albeit still nothing from Mozilla.
It's not impossible but there are simpler solutions. In any case I think the part of the fence you are trying to raise by solving the cert change issue is already much higher than the low parts of the fence. I don't think this is worth the effort to figure out until we address much bigger problems. I think I'm being practical.
My privacy is a bigger problem to me :)
? Things are not peachy. The world is slowly adding the internet to its methods of interacting and the criminals are more prepared than the good guys. I think that addressing the broader UI issue I present is much more important in terms of practical benefit to the user community than preventing against certificate substitution attacks.
"good guys" is another term needing defining, are the Chinese, Iranian or other similar style governments "good guys" simply because they are in power?
So why focus on it while there are more serious problems still at hand?
My privacy is a serious problem to me... Other issues are serious problems to other people, this is all relative to whom you are speaking...
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