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meandering wildly
Personal blog · blog.johnath.comprogrammingweb
meandering wildly is a personal blog at blog.johnath.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Johnathan Nightingale's Mozilla-era blog for explanations of Mozilla's policies, such as the reasoning behind its SSL certificate rules. The linked posts cover certificate authorities and browser security.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
johnath in blog form
What Hacker News says?
https://twitter.com/miradoreltd/status/843877685675868160 adopted from http://blog.johnath.com/images/snotweasel.png [Transcription: Windows XP error dialog with the yellow triangle - title "Something happened and you need to click OK to get on with things." details: "Certificate mismatch security identification administration communication intercept liliputian snotweasel foxtrot omegaforce." then you have a button…
Comment linking /images/snotweasel.png
on “Why is no one signing their emails?”Submitted Mozilla: first impressions from China as a story · 50 points
HN discussionJohnathan Nightingale of Mozilla has a good blog post explaining the rationale behind this: http://blog.johnath.com/2008/08/05/ssl-question-corner/ An especially pertinent point from his post: "Several CAs accepted by all major browsers sell certificates for less than $20/yr, and StartSSL, in the Firefox 3 root store, offers them for free."
Comment linking /2008/08/05/ssl-question-corner/
on “Mozilla SSL policy bad for the Web”Submitted Developer Tools in Firefox: What next? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mozilla's Firefox VP says farewell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cognitive Science of SHUT UP as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
