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		moe on April 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please consider the impacts of banning HTTP Not with SSL certs anyway. At least not as long as your browser trusts hundreds of CA's, including shady ones such as Comodo[1] who will issue fake certs to any name (Google, Skype, etc.). [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...

eli on April 20, 2015 [–]

The fact that Comodo is occasionally scammed (a headline-generating event) does not prove that they add no level of identity authentication.

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