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Re:Accessing Google’s Private Key on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:47AM (#16733372)
Re:Are EV certificates worth the paper they're written on? on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:01PM (#15864448)
> One of the things that I wish we had across browsers was a consistent UI so we could reliably inform users of the indicators to look for.

The UI was consistent with a green address bar as agreed in the cab forum. It was Chrome that broke away from this consistency.

Re:Are EV certificates worth the paper they're written on? on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:56PM (#15864397)
There needs to be a mechanism where a site can provide its verified identity to allow the user to know exactly who they are.

Not every site will need or want this but the ability should exist.

At the moment EV provides this ability. If EV is not seen as the answer then we need to have something else instead. We could decouple this from HTTPS but identity is also a valid purpose of signed certificates.

Re:Google Payments Center on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:26AM (#15548183)
Behind a Google Login but interface is at https://payments.google.com
Have I got this right in lay-mans terms.

The client is forcibly disconnected from the WiFi network and reconnects to the attackers network instead.

The attacker doesn't need to know the WPA2 password but it accepts the connection setting the encryption to zeros.

The client thinks it is connected to the original wifi network and continues as normal.

Wifi traffic is intercepted and unencrypted.

Which is easy if you set preload header.
https://wetransfer.com

Often sending to non-technical people and this I have found is the easiest solution they understand. Click and download.

Would use Google Drive but it makes the download process rather complicated and non-obvious.

I used inurl:server to restrict the results to mainly just server.key files so revealing the private keys of HTTPS websites.

Of course you can remove it. Just means more results to wade through.

Some of the results are web servers leaking the private keys of the website or in some cases mail servers.

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