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Re:Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do... by bubblethink on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:51PM (#35472708)
>Now it definitely has no utility at all any more.

Which is good in the long run. The blue check is like the https padlock. People mistakenly think that it implies security, which it doesn't. Twitter has essentially become a CA within its domain. And gold = EV validation.

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Re:Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do... by manuelabeledo on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:11PM (#35472996)
> The blue check is like the https padlock. People mistakenly think that it implies security, which it doesn't.

It sure does.

For instance, you cannot make a secure request to a domain that is using a different name from the one in the TLS certificate it is serving, e.g. a domain like "gobble.com" serving a certificate issued for "google.com", will be seen as insecure.

Same could have happened with the blue check. Now it is meaningless.

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