On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/startssl_security_breach/
> In today's attack of the day...
> An attack on web authentication authority StartSSL has lead to them
> suspending their services and stopped issuing any further certificates.

  SSL certs are already near-worthless, unfortunately.

  Look at that case where some guy called up Verisign and said "I'm
Microsoft", so they just give him some certs.

-- Ben

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