{"id":4765,"date":"2014-12-12T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2014-12-12T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:05:41","slug":"a-question-on-the-web-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know-and-its-funny-answer-they-own-your-computer-and-will-take-care-of-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2014\/12\/12\/a-question-on-the-web-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know-and-its-funny-answer-they-own-your-computer-and-will-take-care-of-it-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"a question on the web: &#8220;has gmail&#8217;s SSL certificate changed, how would we know?&#8221; \u2013 and its funny answer: &#8220;\u2026 they own your computer and will take care of it for you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/09\/26\/2250227\/ask-slashdot-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know\">http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/09\/26\/2250227\/ask-slashdot-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail--extract_fingerprints.pl\">https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail&#8211;extract_fingerprints.pl<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Google can easily revoke certificates. They can even install what ever they want on my computer as a replacement for google chome with their automatic background updates. Don&#8217;t worry about it, they own your computer and will take care of it for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I came across this thread, when I searched for a way to deal with the occasional fingerprint changes \u2013 because fetchmail has no way of letting me know, I think.<\/p>\n<p>My serious approach to dealing with SSL fingerprint change:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I &#8220;ssh IMAP_SERVER tail -f \u2026&#8221; my procmail LOGFILE anyway \u2026<\/li>\n<li>and because that keeps stalling after a while \u2026<\/li>\n<li>I have to keep restarting it manually<\/li>\n<li>and on the same command line I check for &#8220;fingerprints&#8221; in my fetchmail LOGFILE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/09\/26\/2250227\/ask-slashdot-has-gmails-ssl-certificate-changed-how-would-we-know https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail&#8211;extract_fingerprints.pl Google can easily revoke certificates. They can even install what ever they want on my computer as a replacement for google chome with their automatic background updates. Don&#8217;t worry about it, they own your computer and will take care of it for you. I came across this thread, when I searched for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-1eR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}