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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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