Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.02.2012 18:33, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/27/12 13:43, Florian Philipp wrote: Just a small follow-up: A neat server-sided trick I didn't know until now is HTTP Strict Transport Security [1]. It prevents users from clicking away SSL warnings and prevents mixed content. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on Accept on every site is about the stupidest thing you can do. I'm unsure how the warning looks when you have

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on Accept on every site is about

[gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org wrote: Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? (It always bothers me to see my wife's Windows 7 machines running

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: What is it about my systems wherein every one of these https links case my systems to barf with a This Connection is Untrusted message. If I remove the 's' then things work fine. https encompasses two basic functions:

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 02:59:31PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: They're working on it... They actually have started generating 64-bit nightly builds for Windows and Linux: https://nightly.mozilla.org/ What is it about my systems wherein every one of these https links case

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: What is it about my systems wherein every one of these https links case my systems to barf with a This Connection is Untrusted message. If

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Adam Carter
In all of those cases above, if you allowed the connection it would still be SSL encrypted. You'd be protected against packet sniffers but not against man-in-the-middle attack. And the reason someone will man-in-the-middle you, is so they can sniff your traffic and get passwords or other

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.02.2012 04:01, schrieb Adam Carter: In all of those cases above, if you allowed the connection it would still be SSL encrypted. You'd be protected against packet sniffers but not against man-in-the-middle attack. And the reason someone will man-in-the-middle you, is so they can sniff