an essential extension for firefox for 'real men'

[pvaneynd]

http://kuix.de/sslhazard/sslhazard.php

Yes, I browse to billions of self-signed https sites every day so I needed this...

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[np237.livejournal.com]

Alternatively you can use Epiphany, which uses the old Gecko API to warn about self-signed certificates, which is much less intrusive than the firefox one.

an essential extension for firefox for 'real women'?

[(Anonymous)]

Is there an equivalent extension fod 'real women'? :P

Greetings,
Miry

Re: an essential extension for firefox for 'real women'?

[pvaneynd]

Tsjk. 'real men' is open to all sexes of course!

In fact I often notice that XX individuals are more 'real men' then XY individuals :-)

[ppaeps.livejournal.com]

Super! Thank you - thank you!

Why Mozilla can't just ask you with a non-obtrusive little dialog box to verify fingerprints of unknown certificates out of band like OpenSSH has been doing since the beginning of time is beyond me. I hate how the "WWW" world overloads the word "trust". Do people really "trust" certificates just because they've been signed by some CA which jumped through enough hoops to get their roots included in the standard distribution of webbrowsers?

It scares me that many otherwise intelligent people I know leave the default store of root certificates in their browsers in tact and actually choose to trust certificates purely on the say-so of a little padlock icon.