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20th June 2009 - Link Blog

Google asked people in Times Square:"What is a browser?". Stuff like this makes me despair for creating a secure web—what chance do people have of surfing safely if they don’t understand browsers, web sites, operating systems, DNS, URLs, SSL, certificates...

Posted 20th June 2009 at 1:25 am

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