I disagree. At the margin, it will dissuade some people from using Verisign again. And that impacts their bottom line.
Eventually, for those that really care, there will be a CA that offers the highest levels of security. Probably at a premium price. It's not different to everything else (cars, airlines, furniture, private banking, whatever). There will always be some rogue operators. And there will always be premium operators that drop the ball on occasion. But generally, it will sort it out. Companies that used to be king (Nortel, RIM etc) will go by the wayside. Others (Google, Apple) will prosper. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2011 11:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DigiNotar compromise On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > And yet people ask: "why should I pay $x * 100 for a Verisign/etc. > cert vs $x for a DigiNotar/etc. cert". > Yet, I suppose this is capitalism in action. ... Of course, it was VeriSign that issued a certificate for Microsoft to some guy off the street, so apparently the invisible hand of capitalism ain't doing much for that, either. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
