http://www.wsj.com/articles/symantec-set-to-buy-blue-coat-systems-in-4-65-billion-deal-1465774721
Oh this isn't good.
>>55097798
yawn
For those of you not in the know, Blue Coat makes the Man-In-The-Middle systems that enterprises/big corps use to read encrypted traffic.
And now one of the biggest certificate authorities owns them.
Its happening.
Bump, someone has to be interested in this.
>>55097839
Wait how does this thing work without breaking encryption? I mean, If I use AES 256, how they can read it?
>>55097798
Not good at all, but I've given up on evangelising infosec. People are too lazy to care, and companies aren't getting sued enough to care.
>>55099100
AES is a different type of encryption.
>>55099100
It can't, BlueCoat recently become an intermediate certificate authority, meaning when you visit your bank etc, they can read the traffic and display a green URL saying everything is okay.
>>55099142
You can untrust that shit here: https://blog.filippo.io/untrusting-an-intermediate-ca-on-os-x/
>>55099137
? SSL can use AES.
>>55099142
This makes more sense, thanks.
>>55099178
Yes, but its not the AES that they're breaking necessarily.