News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates. Parent comment

Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante... by galdosdi on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:57PM (#13942972)
What? Of course they improve security. They reduce the risk the user has accidentally navigated to a squatted typo-domain registered by an attacker (or the correct domain, but the registration somehow accidentally expired and was reregistered by an attacker)
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.