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Re: SSL Certificates startssl.com
From: James Triplett <jm-nanog () vj8 net>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:54:39 -0500
On (16/02/12 11:13), Christopher Morrow wrote:
again, startssl.com - free. why pay? it's (as you say) not actually buying you anything except random bits anyway... if you can get them for free, why would you not do that?
They may not charge money, but it's not really free. You have to provide them so much personal information, it feels like an invitation to identity theft. At the least what they collect would be valuable information to sell to marketeers. They demand a valid residential address for the free personal-use certificate; a business address will not do (and they check). Our mixed-use building did not qualify. Next option is one of their cheap business certificates, but then you must send scanned images of: 1. The cover of your passport 2. The first pages of the passport 3. The picture of you with your personal detail of your passport and 1. Both sides of your drivers license or identity card or 2. Photo ID document issued by a local, state or federal authority. In order to save a couple bucks, I'm gonna scan all this and send it off to somewhere in Israel??? Geotrust or Comodo don't put you through this. For $10, I'll keep my info, thanks.
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- Re: SSL Certificates Christopher Morrow (Feb 16)
- Re: SSL Certificates John R. Levine (Feb 16)
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