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Comment: Re:Litigious society (Score 1) 416

by asnare (#31467398) Attached to: Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again

That said, I think the medical safety of vaccines is far from clear.

There is overwhelming evidence that vaccines improve public health. Given that science can only ever disprove a theory, the "far from clear" phrasing tends to be convenient if you don't want to believe something. It's a phrase that can be applied to just about any scientific theory, regardless of how successful it is.

Last year, a friend of mine's kid got a series of vaccines, and that night went into seizures and nearly died. The hospital treated it as a mysterious brain problem unrelated to the vaccines.

Maybe it was a brain problem unrelated to the vaccines.

(While I have a newborn myself and can imagine the stress such a situation would cause, your story is an example of availability bias.)

Comment: Re:no it does. (Score 2, Insightful) 897

by asnare (#24466881) Attached to: Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web

SSL isn't meant just for encrypting pages, it's meant for verifying identity also.

As the article says. SSL does both. FF3 in particular makes the first completely unusable for no good reason. The web would unquestionably be more secure if all http servers switched to using self-signed SSL certificates in place of unencrypted connections.

And this is where you're wrong. There's no point to encryption, unless you know who you're talking to.

Anyone sophisticated enough to sniff your traffic can also hijack it without much trouble. If they can hijack it, then you don't know if you're talking to the intended recipient or a hijacker (who in turn is talking to the intended recipient). This is the definition of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

The very design of SSL and its use of certificates with a chain-of-trust assumes this. Without this assumption, Diffie-Hellman key-exchange is simpler and sufficient. None of the RSA/DSA stuff with certificates would be necessary.


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