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Firefox 6.0.2 fixes yet more DigiNotar certificate fallout
« on: September 07, 2011, 05:31:55 AM »
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by Paul Ducklin on September 7, 2011

Firefox 6.0.2 has just come out, correcting an entirely forgivable glitch caused by Firefox 6.0.1, which was necessitated by the mess caused by disgraced Dutch web security company DigiNotar.

(DigiNotar is the former Certificate Authority - or so-called "authority" - which managed to issue more than 500 bogus digital certificates in the name of major web properties such as Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google; in the name of intelligence agencies such as the Mossad and the CIA; and even, it seems, in the name of other certifying authorities.)

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