Re: MSN Webcam / Chat Spoof

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 12 May 2003 10:09:32 EDT, "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>  said:

> My question:  Why can't an Authenticode certificate present the
> following information to a user:
>
>    - Company name
>    - Street address
>    - Phone number
>    - Web site URL
>    - Contact Email address
>    - Company logo
>    - Link to a product description page

OK.. .So you get a cert - now other than "phone number", is there anything
there that *really* increases your confidence level (given that you have
2 http:// and a mailto: URL, and they could all point at a hijacked server)?

Remember that there has already been one well-publicized case of Verisign
issuing a bogus Microsoft cert - there's no proof they haven't made the
same social-engineering whoops on possibly *dozens* of lesser-known software
houses.

And after the dot-bombed era, there's probably a *lot* of places that had
certs and went belly up - and said certs went out the door when the servers
they were on got surplused.  I'm sure snooping around the right hacker
IRC channels will find you a pointer to a black-market cert that you can have
a copy of....

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