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The certificate technique they use dates back to at least 2010 (possibly only in add-on form back then?) See https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.support.fi... for example. This causes other problems too: http://www.id.ee/index.php?id=37046 It's not alone in this behavior: http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/Programs+tha...


What's funny is that they have three apps for photo-based matching of products...and pets. They really are a "visual search" company, a CA start-up of 80-200 people according to LinkedIn... They just seem to have forgotten the "don't be evil" parts of their business model...


> They just seem to have forgotten the "don't be evil" parts of their business model...

That or maybe they are completely clueless about the security implications.


I think you mean "do no evil"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013374




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