Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority
I’m pretty disappointed by this outcome. I read the entire thread. If you skim the thread and just read the sensational responses then it paints a pretty grim narrative of a CA that cant be transparent. But if you actually read Rachel’s responses she responds to every single accusation several times over. Yeah it’s a word swamp to wade through and the repeated context was annoying, but her company is under attack… what would you do? Would you not try to provide as much rebuttal as possible?<p>It’s pretty… idk… irreverent to take the stance: oh gosh look at this person squirming under pressure to defend themselves why would they do that they must be guilty and malicious. I can smell it! It really feels like a perversely inappropriate forum for discussing a complicated issue like that. Rachel wasn’t trying to deceive so much as she was tying to set guidelines for appropriate review of the material at hand. And then the comment at the end to her when she was simply trying to make sure the transition happens cordially without breaking existing certificates as seems is the intention, “why does Microsoft need to answer to you?”, is just snotty on a whole new level. Honestly it makes me think we need special courts and some sort of process to handle this stuff because people don’t have time to… process.<p>I am probably in the minority here, but I can’t help but feel like Rachel was a victim of a sloppy but effective smear campaign. I suspect the outcome would have been different if this was handled in a court of law.