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NoMoreNicksLeft on Dec 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Old Pirate Bay

It's not entirely implausible that authorities might attack the certificate provider. It's a single point of failure... the MPAA decides to fuck with it, gets them shut down, and suddenly no one can filter comments anymore?

Pxtl on Dec 12, 2014 [–]

Point, but that's a much smaller system to mirror. It can be static. You could bundle a cert list into the client, even.

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