Mac Developer: Two Dell laptop models are shipping with a Superfish-style certificate hack | The Verge
Two Dell laptop models are shipping with a Superfish-style certificate hack | The Verge The certificate is called eDellRoot, first discovered by a programmer named Joe Nord, and because of Dell's pre-installed permissions, affected computers are set to trust any SSL certificate it signs.
Ah, public-key infrastructure, so difficult to get right with ultimately only one point of failure which takes down the entire scaffolding...
Labels: public key encryption, security flaw
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