Supporting a non-profit organization working for a more secure Internet could easily fall under a "valid business purpose" for a site like HN. HN's entire busi

Supporting a non-profit organization working for a more secure Internet could easily fall under a "valid business purpose" for a site like HN. HN's entire business mandate, such as it is, seems to be to encourage technological growth in the interest of profiting tangentially off the growing pie. Edit: as for whether Comodo had a "valid business purpose" for the action, sure, in the same sense that patent trolls have a valid business purpose. Read this statement by their CEO: https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anything-and-everything/shame-on-you-comodo-t115958.0.html;msg837411 https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anyth... It's surreal. He tries to shift the blame to Let's Encrypt for choosing 90 days as their default certificate expiration date, somehow implying that 90 days is Comodo IP.