On 12/23/2008 3:16 PM, Eddy Nigg wrote:
> On 12/24/2008 01:10 AM, Where Wolf:
>> On Dec 23, 5:51 pm, "Kyle Hamilton"<aerow...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I believe that Startcom (and other certification authorites in
>>> Mozilla's root program) would likely have cause to bring an action for
>>> the tort of negligence against Mozilla.  I feel that this is something
>>> that Mozilla should likely ask its general counsel very quickly.
>>>
>> Apart from the legal and procedural ramifications of all this, can you
>> guys publish a manual procedure for those of us who want to remove
>> Comodo's certificates from our browser installations? Assuming one is
>> available?
>>
> 
> Select Preferences -> Advanced -> View Certificates -> Authorities. 
> Search for AddTrust AB -> AddTrust External CA Root and click "Edit". 
> Remove all Flags.
> 
> This would remove the trust from the potentially affected sites and 
> their certificates. Comodo has many more roots if you are interested, 
> such as all AddTrust, Comodo CA Limited, The Usertrust Network.
> 

I've already cleared all trust bits for the three Comodo certificates in
my home installation of SeaMonkey.  Should I also do the same for the
certificates under those other names?  In other words, what have YOU
done with respect to this issue?

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