Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. military contractor

Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by netheril96 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:56AM (#33814313)

The browser vendors know what they are doing. The government has no idea.

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by bombolo on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:07AM (#33815193)

As if browser vendors never included any shady or incompetent root CA?

For example: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252436120/230...

Firefox seems to include root CA from the governments of: Hong Kong (so China?), Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, Netherlands.

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by olliej on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:22AM (#33815859)

And when they find evidence of a CA misbehaving they revoke them, as here, they don’t go to the EU and say “hey we think you need to re audit this company” and then wait a few months/years while the business continues to pay the EU to remain in the root stores.

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