Re: [Update] Text Grab 4.14.1

On 10/06/2026 00:45, Shadow wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 22:45:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)
> <[email protected]>" wrote:
> 
>>> 	I miss the days when people just left the files on FTP
>>> servers, with a little file with the checksum next to them. Far safer.
>>
>> Oh! God yes, now you are talking. I mean so much safer than a digital
>> signature. Remind me why. Out of interest.
> 
> 	Who signs it?

Doc, it’s signed by the developer. Look at the Certification path.

Best you turn off your Windows XP. I mean just check Process Explorer, 
almost every Microsoft service, application, and dll is ‘actually signed 
by *Microsoft*’. All this time, and you didn’t realise this?

Look, the certification authority verifies that the signee, is the 
developer. Check the certificate. The exe, the developer’s identity 
confirmed through a process involving a CSR, public and private keys, 
and the checksum is all bound together so you know and he confirms he 
compiled this application, and the checksum confirms it’s not been changed.

The bottom line here is that conventional checksums are out of date and 
unnecessary if the file is signed. Bone up. This is the future you were 
so scared of.

I had a thought about your JavaScript issue. I can’t bear to think of 
you sitting there in fear, unable to download the few files left not 
signed by Satan so how about, tada, you install Virtualbox on Debian and 
install another Linux in that, and use a modern browser in that with 
JavaScript turned on. Brilliant. Even Dusty would struggle to hack that.

Obviously, DON’T use Linux Mint because yunno systemd, and WORSE, a 
little bird tells me Cinnamon and other distro related stuff is natively 
hosted on GitHub. Yes, I was shocked. Plonk em good guys, plonk em hard!


> 	Do you trust the guys that said Win 10 was the "last version"?
> Oh, you do?

Doc, I view trust as a judgement based upon a balance of probabilities. 
Not as an act based on a hinky feeling, and blind devotion.

As always, luv ya. Hugs []

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