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rmc on Aug 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Tor of the Dark Web

If you are serious about encryption, you can use SSL without the Certification Authority system. Just self sign your own certs and only trust them.

runjake on Aug 19, 2012 [–]

And when you eliminate all of the default cert stores, then important things on the standard OSes most people use like Mac OS X and Windows will break, such as online banking, webmail, and security updates.

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