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Comment by tenfingers

Easy: just provide a certificate that cannot be changed within FF (must be modified by changing a file in the installation directory). No preference needed.

This would allow developers to roll their own, and organizations to allow their custom policy as well (which could mean that the privileges of the user himself aren't sufficient to change the cert).

There's really no reason as of why this couldn't be implemented properly. There' also no reason to not include a switch for it, really. This is all just smoke: most users have the privileges to change the FF binary, meaning that in most contextes malware has too (either through social manipulation or through exploits).

parent tenfingers 10 years ago

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