[Cryptography] Chrome & Firefox protecting users against Symantec (Thawte, Verisign, Equifax, Geotrust, RapidSSL, etc) certs.

[John Levine]

>Both of the major browsers apparently have plans to stop trusting
>essentially everything issued by Symantec, which is long overdue.

No kidding.

>(Side question:  Why the heck did Symantec think it needed so many
>different names?  When I see other companies playing shell games like
>that my first thought is money laundering.)

That part is understandable -- they rolled up a lot of formerly
independent CAs, and kept all their names so customers could
keep the same authority name in the cert when they renewed.

R's,
John