[clug] How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL
Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 12:29:47 UTC 2015
On 30/07/15 16:38, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
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> On 30 July 2015 4:30:40 pm AEST, James Ring <sjr at jdns.org> wrote:
>> Well, they'd have to poison the DNS and also convince one of the
>> certificate authorities trusted by wget to issue a SSL certificate
>> with Google's name on it to the attacker.
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> Like this?
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> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/10470024468/flying-pig-nsa-is-running-man-middle-attacks-imitating-googles-servers.shtml
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Thanks Carlos, I did try searching for that to provide a citation for my
earlier comment about "that's not a hypothetical scenario". I FAILed.
Kudos to this (CLUG) list.
Kind regards
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