As some of you have noted, Opera 8 beta 3 now displays the contents of the certificate's Organisation field in the UI, ostensibly as an anti-phishing measure.

GeoTrust has just released a paper outlining the problems with this approach, and giving practical and real-world examples:
http://geotrust.com/resources/advisory/sslorg/index.htm


Gerv
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