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Re:How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors by ClumsyPilot on Friday March 07, 2025 @10:53AM (#43291164)
> The idea was that businesses would pay extra for a certificate that guaranteed they were the legitimate brand

I really liked that functionality, it made sense to me

Re:How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors by richwater on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:22PM (#43292666)
I dont. Putting the decision of who is a "legitimate brand" shouldn't be in the hand of a private company or bureaucratic government. The concept is ripe for discrimination at pretty much every step.
Re:How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors by ClumsyPilot on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:52PM (#43365177)
What are you trying to say?

A company only exists as legal fiction created by government bureaucrats.

Governments regularly issue documents about these companies, I.e. certificate of incorporation.

How is this any different?

Re:How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors by arccy on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:00PM (#43295225)
Have you seen the corporate names companies use? they're quite opaque and indistinguishable from similarly sounding ones.