Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of development certificates.

Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by Karunamon on Monday March 12, 2012 @10:08AM (#3693532)

Wow. This thread is bringing out the ABA trolls in full force.

For those that don't get it:

Guys. Code signing is a good thing. It prevents code being screwed with by a malicious third party or some form of malware before it ends up on your device. Apple's implementation on the generation side leaves a lot to be desired, admittedly, but the concept is sound.

You'd best get used to it now. You're only going to see it more and more as time goes on - and not just on "jailed platforms".

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Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by sneak on Monday March 12, 2012 @10:11AM (#3693544)

Obligatory rms "Can You Trust Your Computer?": http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

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Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by st3fan on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:59PM (#3694330)

RMS uses a laptop with a Chinese CPU right?

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Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by Karunamon on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:51AM (#3698668)

Indeed he does. Everything down to the BIOS is FOSS. Apparently worrying about hardware inbuilt backdoors is a level of paranoia too high even for Stallman.

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Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by tylermenezes on Monday March 12, 2012 @01:09PM (#3694364)

Many things are a good thing when you have competition. One company who acts as the sole gatekeeper is a bad idea, and this is just another example of why.

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Re:Mothership Down: Apple bug halts the production of develo... by Karunamon on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:41PM (#3695070)

Your problem is with PKI then - someone who has some measure of authority has to sign the certs.

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