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Join Date: Feb 2005
 
2008-06-06, 11:02

I think this bears to keep in mind-

Internet originally was designed to enable communication among several computers. Privacy wasn't a design consideration, and one of aspect of Internet is end-to-end connectivity which also implies that you have to be fully known by everyone else to use the internet (otherwise you'd get blank pages after blank pages cos nobody would know where to send the information to). It is literally an afterthought.

How is that relevant? Well, SSL is wrong solution to wrong problem, so even if it was unbreakable, it wouldn't really solve the real problem; it's easier to secure and protect a line from invasion or snooping, but not as easy to protect the endpoint (namely, your computer). That fancy calculator-thingy Yonzie talked about is probably perfect if he wanted to protect himself from man-in-middle attack or snooping, but it won't do a damn if there's a logger reading his keystrokes or malware that can access the memory heap.

But thankfully, OS X gets it right and does much more to protect the endpoint much better than Windows. (To be fair, this is also true of any well-designed Linux distros or UNIX with a proper implementation of privilege separation and other security mechanism).
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