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Re:Defending Our Brand by giancarlostoro on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:39PM (#11963787)
Just how many use Comodo, and why isn't there some sort of movement pushing against Comodo? Hopefully if they lose business or start to they will think twice and attempt to restructure everything.
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Re:Defending Our Brand by pfg on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:51PM (#11963851)
CloudFlare uses them for Universal SSL, so that's roughly 5% of all websites[1]. Their overall market share (in the CA business) appears to be around 40%[2].

[1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cn-cloudflare/all/a...

[2]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/ssl_certificate/al...

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Re:Defending Our Brand by giancarlostoro on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:53PM (#11963861)
Oh, CloudFlare uses them. That's quite a market share. It is sad that they have such a bad reputation... Hopefully someone buys them out who restructures them or something....
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Re:Defending Our Brand by porpoisemonkey on Thursday June 23, 2016 @05:13PM (#11964351)
An alternative option is to petition CloudFlare to switch Certificate Authorities and hit Comodo where it hurts - in their wallet.
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Re:Defending Our Brand by wigam on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:52PM (#11963855)
Hacker news uses Comodo as their CA.
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Re:Defending Our Brand by nojvek on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:22PM (#11965598)
At least hn should switch to letsencrypt after the douchebaggery from comodo.
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Re:Defending Our Brand by giancarlostoro on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:54PM (#11963864)
I didn't even notice. I guess they're a bigger fish than I ever realized.
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