Conservative party MP David Davis has said that the powers of unwarranted intelligence, surveillance and interception granted in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) should be revoked. Speaking at the ‘Scrambling for Safety’ conference at the London School of Economics (LSE) yesterday, Davis slammed the government’s plans to…
Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates
Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow. Browsers currently check if a website’s SSL certificate has been revoked by its issuing Certificate Authority (CA) when trying to establish an HTTPS connection. These checks are done by…
