Re: Bad Advice from Comodo and Loss of Trust

Nomen Nescio

From "Craig"
> George Orwell wrote:
>> From "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
>>> From: "George Orwell" <>
>>>
>>> |
>>> |
>>> | May 31st, 2008 by Corrine
>>> |
>>> | How does a security vendor lose trust? It likely begins when the
>>> | company CEO becomes overly defensive and posts rants such the one at
>>> | the end of this post:
> ...
>>>
>>> To add to the abobe complaint...
>>>
>>> Comodo has been well known to provide software publishing certificates to malware authors
>>> such as the WinFixer Group (Amaena.com). While the do revoke the certificates when
>>> notified, they provide publishing certificates w/o vetting the company. Having malware have
>>> a legitimate software publishing certificate is one way to thwart the security in Windows
>>> Vista.
>>
>>
>> Comodo is the Malware Author's Best Friend, well known for
>> issuing "Insecurity Certificates" to all without question. You
>> cannot trust such a company with your data security. In any
>> case, their programs suck. Avoid!
>>
>
> If Comodo is a bad issuer of security certs, what are the good ones or,
> do you have a linky to a resource that discusses this?

My boss is radically anti-monopoly and won't use Verisign or
Thawte. We have several certificates from GoDaddy in place.
They've never missed a beat.

Addendum: GoDaddy examines you with a proctoscope before
issuing a certificate.