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Re:XXX TLD Officially Open by MarkPilgrim on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @08:47PM (#2972153)
> seems like a job for dedicated browser-recognized crypto certificate chains

You don't read the news much, do you? ;)

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Re:XXX TLD Officially Open by aangjie on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:28AM (#2972629)
Apparently neither do i. Can you throw some light on what you are referring to?
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Re:XXX TLD Officially Open by waitwhat on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:53AM (#2972679)
I assume Mark is refering to the DigiNotar hack (and earlier Comodo ones) and the ensuing shit-storm which showed what an awful security model the current CA/certificate system really is.
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