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avast! browser cleanup alerts TLSA Validator as a risk!
« on: October 18, 2014, 03:10:46 PM »
What is so wrong with this Google Chrome extension. Found normally to come from Google's Webshop, so Google trusts it as legit.
What are the risks. Re: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tlsa-validator/gmgeefghnadlmkpbjfamblomkoknhjga

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Is this risky also: https://www.huque.com/bin/gen_tlsa  read: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2013/12/want-to-quickly-create-a-tlsa-record-for-dane-dnssec/
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Re: avast! browser cleanup alerts TLSA Validator as a risk!
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2014, 06:25:33 PM »
This made me stumble on this test site. https://xmpp.net/result.php?domain=forum.avast.com&type=client
No DNSSEC TSL error failed.

For a good jabber client: https://xmpp.net/result.php?domain=jabber.de&type=client
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<a href='https://xmpp.net/result.php?domain=jabber.de&amp;type=client'><img src='https://xmpp.net/badge.php?domain=jabber.de' alt='xmpp.net score' /></a>and a list: http://www.jabberes.org/servers/

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« Last Edit: October 18, 2014, 06:42:56 PM by polonus »
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