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USE IE...SSL is INSECURE....OOPS

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dbl221:
Oh man! I seem to recall in Interrnet Security class
THAT THIS WAS ONE OF FIRST RULES OF ANY SECURE CONNECTION.
Authentication and Autorization are beaten into your head every
day in Computer-Systems Hell...er I mean school.

I wish I could get a job where I could get paid to be
as stupid as the FuckTards at Micro$hit.

eXor:
What about Opera 6.01 on Windows?

Is it affected by this?

voidmain:
Yep, Oprah is also vulnerable:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/08/20020813.html

beltorak0:
i was wondering whewn this would appear in the forums;
incedentally, mozilla (addmittedly pre-1.0) appeared too buggy to support the bug.  lol.
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Konqueror turned out quite vulnerable, as I mentioned above. Mozilla was not vulnerable, but I'm not sure if that's because it handled the situation properly, or is, ironically, somehow too buggy to be exploited.

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With Mozilla the URL, https://www.amazon.com simply went nowhere. No cert warning, no 404, nothing. The browser simply remained on the page from which I started. The behavior was the same when I typed the URL into the address bar.

I honestly don't know if that qualifies as success or a felicitous failure; but either way Mozilla users can continue to use SSL in the mean time, while Microsoft and VeriSign are bickering and blaming each other for the problem.

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that was yesterday.

-t.

sporkme:

quote:incedentally, mozilla (addmittedly pre-1.0) appeared too buggy to support the bug. lol.
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well put

SHOCK AND DISBELIEF! ie is insecure?  why, what if they have my credit card number?!?!?!  oh wait.. that isnt a problem for me...

ya this REALLY makes palladium look like the way to go, because SURELY history does not repeat itself in microsoft's FINE line of products... errrrrrrr....

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