Re: [Evolution] Problem with address book

2012-09-10 Thread Milan Crha
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 17:16 -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Detailed error message:Cannot open book! Source already loaded! Hi, I think it was a bug in 3.2.x, which caused this error, though I cannot find it now. This is supposed to be fixed in current stable, which is 3.4.4. Bye,

Re: [Evolution] SSL certificates and Man in the Middle attacks

2012-09-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:26 +0200, Bastien Durel wrote: > Le dimanche 09 septembre 2012 à 22:40 -0400, Jeff Fortin a écrit : > As users (mostly) ignore security warnings[1], it should be useless, > IMHO. > SSH does not targets same users than browsers or mail readers, so users > are more likely to

[Evolution] Problem with address book

2012-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Needle
Hi. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, with Evolution 3.2.3 installed. It's a fresh install on a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop. I can't load my Google contacts. I have all the settings correct, username, etc., but I get an error message in a big red box: Unable to open address book This address book cann

Re: [Evolution] SSL certificates and Man in the Middle attacks

2012-09-10 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 10:26 +0200, Bastien Durel wrote: > As users (mostly) ignore security warnings[1], it should be useless, > IMHO. Nice, didn't know that paper. I normally point to http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/phishing.pdf page 5 as another quick explanation of the effect of such

Re: [Evolution] SSL certificates and Man in the Middle attacks

2012-09-10 Thread Bastien Durel
Le dimanche 09 septembre 2012 à 22:40 -0400, Jeff Fortin a écrit : > Hi there, > As far as I can tell, Evolution uses a default set of SSL certificate > authorities. > [...] > > Will the user get (I hope) a big scary "SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG" warning > like SSH does when server fingerprints don't

Re: [Evolution] SSL certificates and Man in the Middle attacks

2012-09-10 Thread Pete Biggs
> > However, I've been told that the Certificate Authorities system is > fundamentally flawed, in the sense that CAs don't communicate with each > other, any of them can sign for any domain name, and I've been told some > CAs are quite un-trustworthy. This is a scary prospect. Are you saying tha