On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Joakim Aronius wrote:

> Surely the value of stolen certs are higher if the public do not know that 
> they exist.


A wider swathe of interested parties would know of their existence, and their 
existence would be officially confirmed, which would make them more valuable.

Unfortunately, the general public neither know, understand, or care about such 
things.  They happily click 'I Understand the Risks' or whatever the button 
says in their browsers of choice to accept self-signed certificates all the 
time.

I don't know enough details of what actually transpired to have an actual 
opinion on the Comodo situation one way or another; but I can see both sides of 
the argument.

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