Ram A Moskovitz wrote:
I don't think it would be tougher for the US gov to get a certificate out of one US corp or another assuming they had legal grounds to do so and the employees saw no ethnical problem with doing so. If there is a difference I think it is the opposite of what you suggest. VeriSign can afford to fight requests it has problems with while a smaller company may find it much harder. There is a weak analogue available in the way ISPs are handling requests for their customer's information - of course the ISPs don't live by a repuation that depends on trust so they are not as motivated to avoid trust breaches.
Different carrots/sticks...
Here's a nice big contract, you just have to give us one of dem der certificates...
And so being an upstanding Australian citizen or resident I expect he "would go along with any legitimate request made by a legitimate government authority"
Considering how little I think of our government when they bend over backwards to accommodate the US government.... (That would be a no btw)
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