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Re:List of YC companies that use GoDaddy by tlrobinson on Friday December 23, 2011 @05:23AM (#3385283)
I think his point was that the Dropbox software installed on users' machines contains SSL certs, which may make it hard for them to switch.
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Re:List of YC companies that use GoDaddy by marquis on Friday December 23, 2011 @07:26PM (#3387719)
Yes, that would a huge pain to require all Dropbox users to force-update to get new root certs. It will probably take a while until they are due to expire.
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