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[Discuss] free SSL certs from the EFF



On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 12/4/2014 12:15 PM, Joe Polcari wrote:
>
>> To me, that's a good reason for things to stop working.
>>
>
> For certain values of "good" I suppose.
>
> Good news: your email wasn't hacked.
> Bad news: you're fired for failing to submit your reports on time.


On the other hand, if you accept the bad guy's poisoned DNS data:

    Good news: you feel secure because you sent out your reports on time.
    Bad news: They were sent to the bad guy's mail server, so you're still
fired for failing to submit your reports on time to your employer's mail
server.

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