I'm sorry, but said article have already been brought up multiple times in #dev and people are starting to understand how it doesn't hold water anymore.
I break into any discussion I see on IRC where someone posts a link to this article as an argument against SSL on IRC simply because it's not an argument against SSL.
Of course, it takes two to tango. We, the client authors, have started enhancing our SSL support and so should the network operators that hosts the servers on the larger networks.
Also, I think we agree on how Freenode stores the same certificate on every sever is... not ideal...
I break into any discussion I see on IRC where someone posts a link to this article as an argument against SSL on IRC simply because it's not an argument against SSL.
Of course, it takes two to tango. We, the client authors, have started enhancing our SSL support and so should the network operators that hosts the servers on the larger networks.
Also, I think we agree on how Freenode stores the same certificate on every sever is... not ideal...