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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by dujiulun2006 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:48AM (#11108288)
For Chinese people working in IT industry, Qihoo is an awful company for the reasons mentioned above, but also for allegedly assisting government Internet censorship.

Now let's make their awful name worldwide. ;)

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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by Laforet on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:17AM (#11108533)
Like it or not, they do have a crack team of engineers. 90%+ of the Windows kernel hackers in China have worked, or still is with Qihoo.
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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by roddux on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:16AM (#11108925)
Source?
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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by Laforet on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:48AM (#11109028)
This is pretty anecdotal and I doubt there will be a list of names written down somewhere. However have a look at the number of acknowledgements in Microsoft's security bulletins from last year:

Palo Alto Networks - 34

Qihoo/360 - 27

FireEye - 14

Tencent - 14

Trend Micro - 12

Fortinet - 7

McAfee - 2

VMware - 2

Kaspersky - 1

They are a pretty unsavory company but they really know what they are doing.

Source: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/dn903755.aspx

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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by testerooooooo on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:26AM (#11109613)
>>> They are a pretty unsavory company but they really know what they are doing.

And therein lies the problem... no?

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Re:Why I stopped using StartSSL (Hint: it involves a Chinese... by Laforet on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:32AM (#11110459)
The problem is that, more often than not when something related to Qihoo gets posted on HN the replies were invariably about how evil Qihoo is as a company. The discussion quickly becomes derailed and meaningless as the choir busily preach its own members.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9840824

Can we please judge each topic on its own context without the ad hominem?

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