Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security 144
suraj.sun writes "Major browser makers are beginning to revisit how they handle Web authentication after last month's breach that allowed a hacker to impersonate sites including Google, Yahoo, and Skype. Currently, everyone from the Tunisian government to a wireless carrier in the United Arab Emirates that implanted spyware on customers' BlackBerry devices and scores of German colleges are trusted to issue digital certificates for the largest and most popular sites on the Internet."
Re:Maybe the browsers should hardcode the major ce (Score:2, Insightful)
"Impossible"? Hardly. He probably means "hardcoded" as in "embedded in the browser's files", not as "embedded in the code". The browser could still have a UI to manage those certificates. And even if there's no UI, it would be possible to revoke the certificate by upgrading the browser.