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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by macsj200 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:20PM (#14632254)
I get a cert revoked error when visiting that site in Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)
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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by ycmbntrthrwaway on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:24PM (#14632278)
It is signed by WoSign. Firefox is ok with it for now, but StartCom and WoSign are going to be removed eventually in favor of Let's Encrypt.

See https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-a...

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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by Normal_gaussian on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:41PM (#14632352)
Not removed in favour of Let's Encrypt, removed for them not being good CA's - but it doesn't `matter` because we now have Let's Encrypt
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