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I had hopped that they would do that much earlier. WoSign and StartCom acting in a shady way has been known for quite a long time.
by snakeanus 9y ago
I had hopped that they would do that much earlier. WoSign and StartCom acting in a shady way has been known for quite a long time.
- michaelt 9y agoWhere can one learn what CAs are acting in a shady way? Are there other CAs on a similar course?
- snakeanus 9y agoI would say that Comodo is quite shady, sadly it seems that cloudflare sites use it so getting rid of it would be quite difficult. They make multiple low quality and mostly useless applications - one could even call them scamware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Consumer_Security_Products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Consumer_Security.... They also forked Chromium and Firefox and made their own rebranded browsers which offer nothing of value. They have multiple clearly fake comments on their certificate pages: https://ssl.comodo.com/comodo-ssl-certificate.php https://ssl.comodo.com/comodo-ssl-certificate.php and https://ssl.comodo.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.php https://ssl.comodo.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.php And finally they tried to trademark the name of LE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Let.27s_Encrypt_trademark_registration_application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Let.27s_Encrypt_t...