It also means that a crime favours another crime, and that is exactly how 
criminals are caught, because they leave their mark, the more so, the better, 
because it makes it easier to get to the bottom of it. If you were to skip 
steps now, you would also deprive yourself of opportunities to hunt down 
criminals.

Von: Public <[email protected]> im Auftrag von Ryan Sleevi via Public 
<[email protected]>
Antworten an: Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]>, CA/Browser Forum Public 
Discussion List <[email protected]>
Datum: Dienstag, 28. November 2017 um 19:26
An: Ben Wilson <[email protected]>, CA/Browser Forum Public Discussion 
List <[email protected]>
Betreff: Re: [cabfpub] Obtaining an EV cert for phishing

Just to square these comments:

Kirk's position was that EV certificates provide a way of tracking those who'd 
commit crime online because they have to disclose identity.
Gerv and James pointed out that the identity information is only as useful as 
it is vetted, and there's scenarios where the vetting may not be rigorous.
Ben pointed out that it'd be a crime to lie to the government (although, as a 
broad statement, this varies by jurisdiction)

By combining these views, it seems like we're in agreement that criminals who 
are willing to commit crime may need to commit crime to commit crime. That 
doesn't seem like the requirement to commit crime would deter a criminal from 
committing crime, but what do I know - I'm not a criminal (I don't think...)

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Ben Wilson via Public 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Gerv wrote: I would say that the EV Guidelines allow EV issuers to trust things 
which are QGISes because there's an assumption that information in a Government 
information source will have had some level of checking.

I'd disagree.  QGISes are relied upon because everyone relies on them because 
lying to the government is a crime.


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From: Public 
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Behalf Of Gervase Markham via Public
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:46 AM
To: Kirk Hall 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; James 
Burton <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; CA/Browser Forum 
Public Discussion List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Obtaining an EV cert for phishing

Hi Kirk,

On 28/11/17 17:03, Kirk Hall wrote:
> Thanks for the additional information, James.  In the end, the EV
> Guidelines did exactly what they were designed to do – they provided a
> way for the public to find you (as the company owner) if you used your
> EV certificate and domain to do something wrong.

They did, but only because he was honest. He is pointing out that it may not be 
difficult, due to the lack of checking, for a dishonest person to use fake 
information. I do think that's an issue of concern.

I would say that the EV Guidelines allow EV issuers to trust things which are 
QGISes because there's an assumption that information in a Government 
information source will have had some level of checking. But it seems from this 
experience that this is not true in all cases. That concerns me. Do we have to 
agree that Companies House is not a valid QGIS?

This is not a phishing issue, it's a more general "integrity of the EV process" 
issue.

Gerv
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