Verisign's public opinion play

Tue Oct 7 03:41:14 UTC 2003

The one that pisses me off more is

http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top

The article makes me wonder if CNET is the press, or an outlet for press 
releases.  The Internet community is almost uniform in expressing outrage 
for numerous REAL reasons, yet CNET says its from the Internet's technical 
"old guard"....  Sorry, so where is the "new guard" calling for Verisign to 
come back with sitefinder ?  Also CNET leaves un challenged the 'excuse of 
the day' that Verisign without site finder "will not be able to protect the 
Net's critical infrastructure"...

         ---Mike

At 11:12 PM 06/10/2003, Kee Hinckley wrote:

>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.