Posted on 07/20/2022 10:05:25 AM PDT by tired&retired
Freedom? That is a Worship Word… You Will Not Speak It!
Certificates that keep your connections secure rely on a certificate chain up to a trusted authority. In order for certificates from that authority to be trusted, the devices have to trust that chain. Those are the authorities “trusted” by your phone. You can remove them from a device, and suddenly things might break.
You’d be shocked to know what most modern mobile devices trust. It’s kind of terrifying.
Probably not. It’s usually loaded with the OS for customers that would need to connect to that service. They just put it there to pre load it for purchasers of the phone. Just like Windows OS has dozens of root certificates of trusted service providers.
I’m gonna take a good hard look at this. Just got a new phone.
Every modern computer system comes with a library of “trusted certificates,” which are the roots of trust hierarchies which guarantee the identity of every entity on the network. I don’t think you’d like it very much if every website you hit popped up a window with arcane details of their root certificate and asked you if you wanted to trust it or not, but that’s what you’d have to do if your device didn’t have a trusted certificate set pre-installed on it.
Take a look at what certificates Google thinks you might need on your phone. It is as if you could live anywhere in the world.
Sorry, I don’t NEED any Chinese certificates on my phone, or Russian ones, or Greek, Italain, French, or German, ect, ect.
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