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Another 'NSA-proof' webmail biz popped by JavaScript injection bug

Christian Berger

Browsers cannot be secure...

...since there the encrypted channel is based on public certificates. Though you can get something similar to certificate pinning with self-signed certificates, this can easily be subverted by using normal certificates.

What we finally need to do is to get GPG to be more usable and shipped by default with e-mail software.

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