Reply to post: Re: Trust and CA's

Mozilla, Microsoft drop TrustCor as root certificate authority

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Re: Trust and CA's

No, not without doing research and knowing what the drug is, understanding its method of action and its common and rare side effects. The same goes for hygiene products... I want to know what's in my mouth wash, for example. Both "medical" and "non-medical" ingredients, because often that's disingenuous too (e.g. listing methyl salicylate as a non-medical ingredient as if it's just wintergreen flavouring)

I don't trust Microsoft, Google or Mozilla, for that matter, to decide who I don't get to communicate with. Why should I trust the certificate authorities? They can only revoke a certificate after some tomfoolery has occurred. I don't really have much choice as that's the way we're set up, but I don't have to like it.

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