[Techtalk] Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

[John Clarke]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:04:49PM -0400, Brenda Bell wrote:

> IMHO, Verisign is one of the scariest organizations on the Internet.  Two
> years ago, Verisign sold someone a domain using my credit card number, name

Scary indeed.

This is the same organisation that issued two SSL certificates to
"Microsoft Corporation" without checking that the person who bought
them actually worked for MS.

I wouldn't even trust them to run a chook raffle.


Cheers,

John
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