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		nuxi7 on April 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does your browser rejected revoked certificates? microsoft removed it, but that doesn't mean he was right. Last I checked, the internet did not end while XP had raw sockets, and windows server retains this capability.

wnevets on April 14, 2014 [–]

So why did MS remove them?

mahmud on April 14, 2014 | [–]

Responding to the public hysteria; they couldn't take their chances, they would have been crucified if even a single incident was reported, because they had "forewarning".

Steve Gibson did to raw-sockets what Jenny McCarthy did to vaccines.

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