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[ PRIVACY Forum ] McAfee,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Fri Oct 5 15:27:52 2012
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:56:13 -0700
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McAfee, Trust Guard certifications can make websites *less* safe
http://j.mp/OaLi5z (ars technica)
"That's because a design flaw in the service, and in competing services
offered by Trust Guard and others, makes it easy to discover in almost
real time when a customer has had the seal revoked. A revocation is a
either a sign the site has failed to pay its bill, has been
inaccessible for a sustained period of time, or most crucially, is no
longer able to pass the daily security test."
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Yep.
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