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Tordurbar

join:2009-07-12

reply to hayc59
Re: Comodo Continues to Damage It's Reputation

Why take a drunk drivers license or pull a bad guys cert, just seems like it's the right thing to do.

Out of context highlighted quotes, are relative to treating all low level certs with the suspect caution they deserve.

No Contradiction.


SnowyOne
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said by Tordurbar See Profile :

Why take a drunk drivers license or pull a bad guys cert, just seems like it's the right thing to do.

The difference is pulling a drivers license of someone DUI & issuing them one while their drunk.

Tordurbar

join:2009-07-12

reply to hayc59
Now that we have reached the point of dissecting quotes,
over analyzing off the cuff analogies, and a mildly sinister PM.
(you know who you are) my response -
Careful what you ask for there, sunshine.

It should be fairly obvious to anyone that has actually followed this "educational thread" titled "Comodo Continues To Damage It's Reputation" and plows first through pages on how to remove the evil Comodo from their PC's. That Perhaps a more fitting and newsy title may have been.
Bloggers Continue To Try To Damage Comodos Rep.


hayc59
VoodooChild
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David R.I.P.
reply to hayc59
Said by Tordubar
Bloggers Continue To Try To Damage Comodos Rep.
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Oh come on they being Melih did that all on his own
no help from anyone...get real sunshine?? LOL


mers2
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reply to Tordurbar
Yup, Comodo damaged their own rep without any help from outside sources.

Methinks you doth protest too much. Not to mention that unlike most of the folks in this thread the only "helping" I've ever seen you do is trying to protect Comodo, not it's users.


mers2
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reply to hayc59
Just a side note to add, I read the blog that smokey linked to, giving Mike's reasons for not adding the Ask Toolbar. As long as there is an option not to install the toolbar, I won't condemn those security companies, including Comodo that have it - but I will say I am extremely disappointed at the number of security companies that are going with this model. None of the software I use has thus far sunk to this level and I admire venders like OA, WinPatrol and others that have kept their integrity 100% intact.
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tradnav

join:2005-02-25
UK

reply to hayc59
Seems to me Tordubar that whilst I admire your guts and (rightly or wrongly) dedication to Comodo (and I'm certainly a proponent of free speech), that you're on a hiding to nothing on this forum.

It may be considerably easier on yourself if you buy a hair shirt and take up self-flagellation! The vast majority (including me) are not convinced by your excuses...(oops!, sorry, explanations).

One word (mentioned by mers2).....integrity.

Regards


ashrc4

join:2009-02-06
australia

reply to Tordurbar
Sorry for the late reply.

said by Tordurbar See Profile
@ asherc4
Massive misquote there.
You quoted Melih's quote of Donna's post of what Verisign said.
[/BQUOTE :


Yep you got me there. Quite a good one
But hang-on in what context was the misquote made?Hmm
Should i explain that again...perhaps you missed it.
Here it is again.
"If Melih had just come out and publicly stated the below quote from the beginning (in regards to the cert issues) then gone on to re-establish it's responsibilty in-regards to future direction of cert developement. Then we would have had an informitive insight to the issues at had.
Unfortunatley he continues to treat the issues as a platform for further attacks on those that wish to call for such."

I actually feel you are doing Comodo a dis-service somehow in making further light of these issues. Although in the scheme of things you would probably fit right in in the Comodo PR department
I'm not sure it qualifies you to make any assumptions on my behalf though
Quote "whom the fools really are! - Yes, and it becomes clearer with each misguided blog posting."

Quote ....."Why instead do they single out Comodo from all the CA's and try to hold their feet to the fire, for certs that imply no more than encryption/valid domain, the bad guys are the bad guys in this."

O.k. i understand your reasoning for this for this statement.
It seems obvious that Comodo would prefer that everybody finds the notion of what a lesser cert currently represents in their eyes. And to further future-proof their stance they are encouraging a more "trusted" interpretation of a more complex expensive cert.

Quote ....."Bad actors can get DV certs, and drivers licenses and credit cards and cell phones and ISP's and Domain Hosts and whatever else they want, pretty much. Hello real world.

O.k. so who issues Drivers Licenses then. The "wild cowboys" of the cert trade. No it's a serious issue and one would expect responsible parties to do such. Certs are no different. The people that issue them should lift there game or face loosing control of there issue. Although the internet is global the country in which the businesses are registered are not and legislateing company's to require a "we trust you to receive our own commerce cert whilst further requiring "Browsers" to apply for their decryption of a particular endorsment could be more lucrative, more trusted and finally more accurately designed both in it's implimentation and function.
This is more of a "Hello real world" view.

"......i sincerly hope they no longer continue to have influence in this respect."
I was not suggesting that Comodo should go out of business. just i see no evidence that they have the intergrity to continue on behaving the way they do presently. The current product fails to meet the potentsial of it's design and is not much more than a glorified cookie or token.

"The better solution is to educate users on the new reality."
Couldn't agree with you more.
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jp10558
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reply to Mele20
said by Mele20 See Profile :

said by Tordurbar See Profile :

When properly notified they quickly pull bad actors certs.

I don't want to lose the ability for a little guy to provide encryption.
So I don't see a need for change other than to get people to STOP thinking encryption means trust.
I don't think little guys should be in this game in the first place.

I think you are the one engaging in abuse of this system by wanting to provide encryption to a little site for your friends to visit. That is NOT what this is supposed to be about.

If certs have nothing to do with TRUST then there is no reason whatsoever to have the system in place. It should be torn down and I have to assume that is what you are advocating because anything else makes no sense by virtue of your own statements.
Are you insane? You think that only large corporations deserve private communication on the internet? Remember that certs (in general) are used for secure e-mail, programs like LogMeIn, and various web based programs to protect credentials (Think Network Monitoring systems like Zenoss, where if you snarf the credentials on the wire because small companies using OSS "shouldn't have certs" you can now p0wn the network) as well as just provide the equivelent of an envelope against snoopers on the net.

In a free country, why wouldn't the default be private communications (encryption on the net)? In fact, IIRC IPv6 is going to really enable IPSec and ?might? default to all communications being encrypted.

In the real world, your arguement is like saying Colleges, Local Libraries and clubs among others shouldn't be able to have membership/ID cards, because some people don't realise that they're not as good an identifier as a Passport. I'd have said drivers license, but many states drivers license isn't any better or harder to forge than a College ID.

I think it's unfortunate that the setup for the internet decided to use certificates rather than something more like PGP Key Signing as an option so there wasn't really any "certification" for uses that don't require it. But here, just because a vendor was to offer ID services to the colleges, library, clubs and made Passports doesn't really mean you should distrust that vendor because the College ID isn't as hard to fake or get illegitametly as the passport. That's just crazy IMO.
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Mele20
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I don't get your point. As a user, I want to know if the website I am going to give my personal information to is actually the website I think it is. That is the first thing I need to know and second is that my information is encrypted. Of course, I RARELY give personal information to any site. If I have to do it, which I don't want to have to do (and if forced I just make up information) then the most important thing is to know if the site is who it says it is. When Eddy Nigg was able to buy a cert for mozilla.com that broke all trust in certificates....at least the junk ones issued by Comodo. The rule I was taught in classes before I ever got my first computer still holds: never, ever tell the full truth on the internet unless in a very rare circumstance. It is rare beyond rare that I would ever want give personal information to some mom and pop site on the internet. It is extremely rare that I would do that for a large, well known site so, I certainly would not do it for a minor player. I rarely even accept any cookies and I never see an ad.
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ashrc4

join:2009-02-06
australia

reply to jp10558
said by jp10558 See Profile :

In the real world, your arguement is like saying Colleges, Local Libraries and clubs among others shouldn't be able to have membership/ID cards, because some people don't realise that they're not as good an identifier as a Passport. I'd have said drivers license, but many states drivers license isn't any better or harder to forge than a College ID.
Certs don't have the power to prosecute know offenders. They claim responsibilty for being able to "pull a cert"
Fraud by deception is a huge leap from a college id (which insidently requires and drivers license to obtain). The "fraud by deception" is only aided by issuing a cert a rouge trader.

I'm sure banks would wish to encourage more security.
I'm sure other certs would prefer not to subscribe to the "well rouges will get one anyway" defense. When you're license is taken from you it makes it that little bit harder to obtain another one (even with a passport) unlike obtaining another cert.
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jp10558
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reply to Mele20
said by Mele20 See Profile :

I don't get your point. As a user, I want to know if the website I am going to give my personal information to is actually the website I think it is. That is the first thing I need to know and second is that my information is encrypted.
My point is you're doing the equivelent of using a hammer to pound in a screw. You're taking an existing tool, and deciding it should do something other than what it does, and then blaming the hammer vendor for not selling you a screwdriver. This seems both counterproductive and, to put it bluntly, stupid.

You have obvious solutions, namely, use the right tool for the job you want to do - in this case, EV Certificates.

I suppose you could distrust ALL DV Certificates, but to randomly pick one company to hate on seems counterproductive to me. The major problem I see is I'm not really sure how you'd distrust every certificate but EV ones automatically in a browser, but you could just look for the green bar instead of the yellow one.
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