Delete Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OSX

Inspired by http://zitseng.com/archives/7489 Source (Github) WARNINGS Do not run unless you understand what this is doing The CA system is broken by design - This is not a fix for that This is merely a band-aid for those interested or concerned about these root CAs Usage chmod +x delete_gov_roots.sh ./delete_gov_roots.sh Youโ€™ll be prompted for your password as root access is required to delete system-wide root certs. See Also http://convergence.io https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/ https://github.com/kirei/catt https://www.eff.org/observatory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478418 http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202858 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Certificate_and_Public_Key_Pinning

February 23, 2015 ยท 1 min ยท 75 words ยท Sam McLeod