[Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

[Joe Polcari]

To me, that's a good reason for things to stop working.

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[mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Richard Pieri
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF

On 12/4/2014 11:36 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
> Come on man, this statement is very obviously false.  It only needs to
> be turned off in very specific, very limited circumstances, namely
> when you MUST do whatever you're doing RIGHT NOW, AND you can't find a
> reasonable alternative, like doing your work from a starbucks (or
> other hotspot or whatever) across the street, AND the consequences of
> not doing it RIGHT NOW are worse than the risk of getting hacked...
>
> ..which is like, never.

Sure, I get that.

Joe Average, on the other hand, probably doesn't care about that. He 
cares that his month-end report is due in 5 minutes and his mail hangs 
every time he presses "send". DNSSEC validation may be protecting him 
from getting his mail hacked but it's doing so by preventing him from 
getting any of his work done. I call that a case of the cure being worse 
than the illness.

-- 
Rich P.
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