Biting into my wooden desktopArrgh! Just on Friday I read about (Perfect) Forward Secrecy in my german IT-mag and there's a handful of email providers using it, and today you (or the reg) tells me that the MIB are shutting them down already?!
I wonder when or whether gmx will be forced to stand down as well. That's a slap in the face. And only half of the story. I'm too outraged right now to investigate deeper on the verisign trusted certificate topic, but in short there's a Windows backdoor (for authorities like the MIB or criminals) to smuggle a wrong certificate into the chain and the (normal) user never notices this. Mainly IE and chrome users and, sadly enough, soon also Opera lovers like me (they will give up their own presto-engine soon) are affected. Firefox brings its own encryption suite and is not affected by this (yet). So I'll have to give up my good old Opera after all these years? Phah, I'll just keep on using my older version until it breaks down.
Also, if I were you, Harry, I wouldn't ever use any 'cloud' storage, however strong you encrypt your data. Guess who will be the first to use quantum-decryption? And they're storing everything for later decryption. Storage is cheap, so buy another 4TB harddisk and keep your data at home.
If we get to store our data holographically though, all will get a bit more complicated still, so let's keep ourselves informed. Us old IT foxes that we will be then.
Listened to some Queen: A Night At The Opera and calmed down a bit(Completely OT) Do you think by the way that my english has rusted during the years that have passed since our initial acquaintance, Mr. Stottle?Oh, just before submitting I discovered that the chrome-Opera browser will be called Opera Next, so there might still be hope that the Presto-engine will be continued. I'm having my fingers crossed.