Verisign's public opinion play

Tue Oct 7 03:12:58 UTC 2003

Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this one.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html
Apparently our objections stem from our lingering resentment over the 
commercial use of the internet.

In case you're wondering who the author is, since neither the bio on 
the page or Verisign's site is helpful.  Mark McLaughlin is a former 
lawyer who moved into Marketing and Biz Development (Caere, Gemplus, 
Signio and then Verisign payments).
-- 
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.