B Linky spake unto us the following wisdom: > >> The certificate for omega.msn.com could not be validated, The > > > certificate chain presented is invalid. > > .. trying to connect to MSN today, see the following page for the solution: > > > http://blog.andreineculau.com/2010/11/pidgin-and-msn-certificate-error-for-omega-contacts-msn-com/ > > I've no idea why noone from pidgin has thought to post to this list > about it - I had to go on their irc channel to find out, where people > were coming on all the time asking. You'd have thought they'd have > been fed up answering the same thing all the time.
No one has posted this because it involves force-feeding Pidgin a
certificate from a third party of unknown validity. It works, but
unless you understand what you're doing, you could be fed a bogus
certificate which enables man-in-the-middle attacks.
Ethan
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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
for evils]. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.
-- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
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