For what it's worth Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk a few years back about some of the major issues with SSL as it is and had an anecdote about how bad Verisign's

For what it's worth Moxie Marlinspike gave a talk a few years back about some of the major issues with SSL as it is and had an anecdote about how bad Verisign's security is including the fact that they had a major breach in which several certs were taken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA