SHA1 certificates for secure SSL/TLS communications are deprecated due to known computational vulnerabilities. To ensure secure communications, a forced deprecation sounds reasonable (i.e. refuse to connect to these). That has the side effect that it will lock out many users who are unable to use stronger hashes such as SHA256. However, if a fallback to SHA1 is provided (as Facebook is proposing), everyone will be vulnerable to SHA1 downgrade man-in-the-middle attacks.
What to do?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @05:14PM
Who the fuck cares what Facebook warns about? Fuckerberg can go choke on a bucket of dongs.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by SomeGuy on Friday December 11 2015, @06:15PM
Really, secure connections should only be needed for truly sensitive data like banking. It is a rather sad state of affairs that a login to some dumb social media site is considered a matter of life and death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @06:21PM
Well you might like having all your non critical communications in plaintext and monitored by a half dozen countries, but I don't.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 11 2015, @09:07PM
As if Facebook isn't already happily handing them over at the drop of a hat.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @06:52PM
Secure connections should be used for all transmission of credentials.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @07:44PM
It is a rather sad state of affairs that a login to some dumb social media site is considered a matter of life and death.
Maybe not death but life. So much can go wrong. False flag etc. Ready to be "gang raped" by the system and everyone who thinks you're a pedophile?
And why are you SomeGuy? Is that your real name or is your real name truly sensitive data too? A matter of life and death?
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday December 12 2015, @07:47AM
At times like this, I wish that I had picked a witty username like WitnessProtected or TheFBI [bash.org].
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:26PM
> Really, secure connections should only be needed for truly sensitive data like banking.
No, secure connections should be used for ALL data. Otherwise it calls attention to itself and makes it easy for attackers to focus on the most valuable network traffic.
This is a case of "a rising tide lifts all boats."