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Re: End of the line for Ireland's dotcom star
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Wed Sep 24 16:59:46 2003
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From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:15:22 -0400
> Why is it that none of those 100-odd companies with keys in the browsers
> are doing anything with them? Verisign has such a central role in
> the infrastructure, but any one of those other companies could compete.
> Why isn't anyone undercutting Verisign's prices? Look what happened with
> Thawte when it adopted this strategy: Mark Shuttleworth got to visit Mir!
And Thawte got bought by Verisign, so no more competition...
Interestingly, last time I checked, it was cheaper to buy from Thawte than
it was from Verisign directly.
--Anton
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