Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 127
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from the fencing-of-the-commons dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Thawte is ending their Web of Trust, including their free Personal Email Certificates, in less than 2 weeks' time. This hasn't been picked up by the media yet. Seems to me a lot of people, including myself, are hurt by this." Thawte is offering a 1-year free VeriSign cert to those holding valid Personal Email Certificates; after that you pay.
I knew it! (Score:5, Funny)
Providing free certificates (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Providing free certificates (Score:1, Funny)
Can some other trusted company, like Google, step in?
I honestly can't tell if this was supposed to be funny or not.
It's Just That (Score:2, Funny)
Disappointing. However, this is still the year (Score:2, Funny)
of personal digital certificates on the Linux desktop, over IPv6.
How unexpected... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's Just That (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why hasn't the media picked this up? (Score:3, Funny)
> People give up privacy and security every 10 seconds for a free hand job it seems.
Free hand job? Want my address? :-)
Re:How unexpected... (Score:3, Funny)