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A comment on Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates. Parent comment

Re:Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates by dragonwriter on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:47PM (#15222158)
> But "distrust" doesn't convey the full meaning. They're not talking about merely not trusting Symantec certificates; they're talking about removing existing trust in the certificates.

“distrust” alone only communicates not trusting, true. But the word isn't alone, it is in the phrase “plan to distrust”, which communicates that the not-trusting is a change from the status quo that will occur in the future.

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Re:Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates by cperciva on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:32PM (#15222573)
which communicates that the not-trusting is a change

Not necessarily. "Plan to distrust" would be consistent with "a company has announced that they're going to start issuing certificates; we won't trust them". You and I know that Symantec is a major CA which is currently trusted by Chrome, but that isn't implied by the headline.

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