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The biggest problem with superfish was not the surveillance itself but instead that it broke SSL and thus exposed all "infected" systems ...

The biggest problem with superfish was not the surveillance itself but instead that it broke SSL and thus exposed all "infected" systems to a plethora of attacks. Because Google controls both the operating system and the browser, installing a malicious certificate would not be necessary to achieve similar levels of surveillance.

Posted by zingplex on Mar 15, 2015, 2:24 PM

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The biggest problem with superfish was not the surveillance itself but instead that it broke SSL and thus exposed all "infected" systems ...

zingplexMar 15, 2015, 2:24 PM

The biggest problem with superfish was not the surveillance itself but instead that it broke SSL and thus exposed all "infected" systems to a plethora of attacks. Because Google controls both the operating system and the browser, installing a malicious certificate would not be necessary to achieve similar levels of surveillance.

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