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		chrisbolt on March 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Men who spy on women through their webcams 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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