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Extended Validation SSL, More Secure or Just a Racket?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-revenue-generation dept.

Nalfeshnee writes "The Register is reporting on the new 'Extended Validation SSL' cert currently being touted by Verisign. Vista and IE7 will be using this but not, apparently, Firefox anytime soon. For this the Verisign Product Marketing Director Tim Callan squarely blames the Firefox dev team for 'not keeping up' with their new technology. However, the whole thing just seems to be a way for Verisign to enjoy ridiculous markup on selling 'more secure' certs."

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  1. Re:STOP THE PRESS! ORACLE LINUX IS HERE! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. That a commitment to Linux, not their own distro.

    2. The story was already posted here.

    Now go troll somewhere else.

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  2. Re:OT: A heads up on your .sig by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Presumably you are saying that something just flew over my head? Or are you saying it flew over the head of the parent? If you are saying something flew over my head, then I would love to hear what it is supposed to be that I missed.

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  3. Re:OT: A heads up on your .sig by ezzzD55J · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm wondering that too. Maybe the joke is that the author can't count in binary either.