Re: dodgy certs and big companies

2005-03-11 Thread Ian G
Duane wrote: Ian G wrote: Right, another obstacle. If all countries had hard ID like some of the Europeans had, *and* this was an international standard like the US wants with passports, then this might help. A lot of people in Australia and other countries never get passports... I've also heard

Re: dodgy certs and big companies

2005-03-11 Thread Duane
Ian G wrote: Right, another obstacle. If all countries had hard ID like some of the Europeans had, *and* this was an international standard like the US wants with passports, then this might help. A lot of people in Australia and other countries never get passports... I've also heard of some count

Re: dodgy certs and big companies

2005-03-11 Thread Ian G
Jaqui Greenlees wrote: Ian G wrote: actually, if the CA's were forced to deal with someone, in person, with photo id, and papers, just like getting drivers license, sin card or bank account, then there would be far less chance of mis issued certs. Easy to defeat. The cost of defeating this is o

Re: dodgy certs and big companies

2005-03-11 Thread Jaqui Greenlees
Ian G wrote: It is not easy to decide what makes for a dodgy cert and what does not. Here's a case of an apparent anti-Virus tool that is being sold under false pretenses. http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000496.html (It looks like paid spyware to me ...) The blog investigator dug deeper and

dodgy certs and big companies

2005-02-26 Thread Ian G
It is not easy to decide what makes for a dodgy cert and what does not. Here's a case of an apparent anti-Virus tool that is being sold under false pretenses. http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000496.html (It looks like paid spyware to me ...) The blog investigator dug deeper and found that th