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It was cheap and easy to "steal" microsoft's certificate in 2001. http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mstheft.html http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mst
by gaika 18y ago
It was cheap and easy to "steal" microsoft's certificate in 2001. http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mstheft.html http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2001/mstheft.html
- tptacek 18y agoThat event was so rare that it made national news, hasn't happened since, and has never happened to a financial institution. If your argument is that Verisign sucks, though, I won't contest it. I'm not saying the CA business model is good; I'm saying that it's silly to say you can run SSL without CAs.