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> CNNIC is super trustworthy to a lot of people No, CNNIC is not even trustworthy among Chinese Internet users. CNNIC invented tons of rootkit adware and spyw
by est 12y ago
> CNNIC is super trustworthy to a lot of people
No, CNNIC is not even trustworthy among Chinese Internet users.
CNNIC invented tons of rootkit adware and spyware. It has a very bad reputation. Google for 3721 中文网址 if you are interested
Although it claims to be a neutral non-profit organization, it does have multiple for-profit business lines.
In the past CNNIC belongs to China Academy of Science, but now it's just a puppet under ruling Party's control[1][2].
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Leading_Group_for_Internet_Security_and_Informatization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Leading_Group_for_Inter...
[2]: News in Chinese http://tech.gmw.cn/2014-12/27/content_14311910.htm http://tech.gmw.cn/2014-12/27/content_14311910.htm
- blacktulip 12y ago> No, CNNIC is not even trustworthy among Chinese Internet users. CNNIC is not trustworthy especially among Chinese Internet users.
- crazychrome 12y agoabsolutely! In general I trust pure commercial organisations more than govt. and non-profit orgs.
- andreyf 12y ago> CNNIC is not even trustworthy among Chinese Internet users. Oh? Then why did Firefox, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. trust their root certificate? I know hating on China is all the rage, but something isn't making sense here... > Google for 3721 中文网址 if you are interested Just did. Got nothing. Are you referring to [1]? I'm not seeing what that has to do with CNNIC. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Assistant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Assistant
- est 12y ago> Oh? Then why did Firefox, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. trust their root certificate? Mozilla no longer trust CNNIC. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/02/distrusting-new-cnnic-certificates/ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/02/distrusting-new...
- andreyf 12y agoYes, hence my using the past tense. I do not see how "CNNIC is [not trustworthy]" is compatible with "Firefox, Google, Apple, and Microsoft trusted their certificates until MCS Holding screwed up some corporate network's https-interception implementation". In particular, was there any evidence of any mis-deeds by the CNNIC before what MCS Holding did? Anything at all aside from "they are a Chinese and that is bad" FUD? Have they ever issued a certificate used to MITM the communications of political dissidents, for example?
- dragonwriter 12y agoTFA is about the fact that Google no longer does trust CNNIC. And Mozilla no longer does, for the same reason.