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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by berkut on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:12AM (#33814852)
Seriously!?

I'd argue it could be termed "what-aboutism", but I personally fail to see how that matches my definition of "lashing out"...

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by shkkmo on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:09AM (#33817188)
> Apparently it may also come as a surprise to some readers and the researchers themselves that...

This part in particular is what I would view as "lashing out"

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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by KingOfCoders on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:00PM (#33819972)
Yeah, security researches at Google don't know this!
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Re:Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. mi... by CoastalCoder on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:09AM (#33817191)
> I'd argue it could be termed "what-aboutism",

I agree that it's "what-aboutism". In that regard, it does nothing to establish that TrustCor meets the standards for being a CA.

It does raise a good question for parallel discussion, though: Should Mozilla also be scrutinizing a whole bunch of other CAs as well?

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