Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates

Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante... by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:31PM (#13941953)

Installing apps from other stores on Android is literally a checkbox away - but installing new root certs on computers is considerably harder, or impossible if your computer is locked-down (group policy, etc).

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Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante... by wiml on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:24AM (#13946831)

Installing new roots on Macs, iOS, and Android devices is really easy. It's mildly inconvenient on Linux desktops.

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Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante... by victorhooi on Saturday March 25, 2017 @07:31AM (#13955095)

It's actually no longer possible on Android, without jumping through significant hoops:

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061320 https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/2054

And it's really not the sort of thing your average non-technical user is likely to do - and trust me, having supported these users before, it's likely to go horribly wrong if you try providing steps for them.

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