Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

[Matt McCutchen]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 17:55:39 -0400,
>   Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Epiphany is a non-starter.  In the default configuration, it doesn't
> > validate SSL certificates at all (bug 569577).  An unbranded Mozilla
> > browser would be a much better choice.
> 
> The way Firefox does it, is more to help companies sell certificates than to
> actually help security.

I don't want to repeat that debate here.  Please see:

http://www.gerv.net/security/self-signed-certs/

-- 
Matt