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		krichman on March 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Men who spy on women through their webcams I hate OS X's implementation. They need to allow third-party CA's. I don't want to choose between what Apple allows developers to do and "fuck it let it run free and do whatever it likes". Nor do I want the global choice in System Preferences to be between developers that paid $100 to Apple this year and Wild West.

chrisbolt on March 11, 2013 [–]

What would prevent malware authors from just signing with their own CA?

krichman on March 11, 2013 | [–]

Users shouldn't install self-signed root certs unless they trust that root with access to all of their computer.

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