[free-sklyarov] Ashcroft in Mountain View, 20 July

[Jon O .]

> > When:   11:115AM (Pacific Time), Friday, July 20
> > 
> > What:   Attorney General News Conference
> >          Regarding Cybercrime
> > 
> > Where:  VeriSign Worldwide Headquarters
> >          487 East Middlefield Road
> >          Mountain View, CA
> 
> My question is: WHY THE HELL is the Attorney General speaking about
> "cybercrime" at the headquarters to a PRIVATE CORPORATION?!?
> 
> This corporation doesn't have the public's best interest in mind when it
> makes policies and should have no more right to direct consultation with
> our executives than any REAL PERSON in this country (personally, I'd argue
> that it has LESS right than a real person, being a legal fiction and all).
> 


You are right on the money with this one. Who controls your SSL Certificates?
Who controls the Root Nameservers? What crypto keys are escrowed and to whom?

Anyone got any other control Verisign wields or a list of the escrowed keys?

The plot keeps getting thicker...

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