The well known problem of MD5 collisions allowed researchers to impersonate a certificate authority. This would allow HTTPS to be subverted via a man in the middle attack. For $2,000 and a day, hackers could pull off this attack using Amazon’s EC2.
Instead of relying on Google Reader’s sharing function, I think I’ll start posting tidbits on my blog.
I’m a huge fan of Amazon Web Services. I should play around a bit more with EC2.
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