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[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly the entire certificate system is a fraud. You can see just how vulnerable it is with the recent Microsoft vulnerability

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm ootl on this one - what happened?

[–] intelati@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft has been signing stuff that is being used maliciously.

Plus they have has their keys stolen to create malicious stuff...

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I was referring to the latter

Never said it wasn't flawed.

But Google itself is flawed. Their search results have been a joke for years now, top results are almost always malware now, no matter what you search for.