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jwarren on March 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing ...

If anyone here hasn't realised, Symantec bought Verisign back in 2010 - who own many brand names, like GeoTrust, Equifax, Thawte etc. You can see a list of their roots certs here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/net/...

In case you missed it at the bottom:

> From Mozilla Firefox’s Telemetry, we know that Symantec issued certificates are responsible for 42% of certificate validations

Minikloon on March 24, 2017 | [–]

Symantec bought Verisign's authentication business, still two different companies.

GeoTrust was started from buying Equifax's security business. Symantec bought GeoTrust. Symantec doesn't own the Equifax brand or company.

ajasmin on March 24, 2017 | [–]

Wasn't Verisign the very first CA business? How the mighty have fallen!

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