Well,
At least Thawte are smarter than to be spammers. Mr Whiffin made some incredible pricing offer to
"make amends" for the spam. It may be hard to ignore the pricing, but I will not deal with another
Verisign-like company. The attitude starts at the top and this sets a precident for low morals.
Just because you can do something such as interogate a company's cert and build a contact database
based on the info- does not mean it should be done.
Sounds like it may be time to amend or apend a copyright notice on the data contained within a cert
(similar to the whois output) to prevent certs from falling into the domain name billing quagmire.
This may also appeal to end users as a (legal) benefit to prevent third party building of marketing
databases and spamming in general.
I can see it now: spam lists of One MILLION e-commerce businesses offered for sale by spammers, for
spammers..... what cruft
>> The WHOIS contact for the domain that our wildcard SSL cert is based on
>> received a similar message, except its for their wildcard SSL cert. I
>> didn't know that anyone other than Thawte offered wildcard certs.
>> Now we have to decide if we want to renew at Thawte (i.e. give Verisign
>> business) or get a new cert from spammers... Which one is the lesser of
>> two evils?
>> From: renewals@comodo.net
>> Organization: Comodo Research Lab
>> To: #
>> Subject: Your Thawte SSL Certificate expires in 30 days
>> Date sent: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:52:30 +0100
>> Dear #,
>> Your Thawte SSL wildcard Certificate protecting *.# will
>> expire on 02-AUG-02 - that's now in only 30 days!
>> Before renewing your wildcard Certificate with your current provider
>> consider PremiumSSL Wildcard Certificate - available at only $449 through
>> InstantSSL.com, the new driving force in fast, cost-effective SSL
>> Certificates.
>> Why pay extortionate amounts to renew your Thawte wildcard Certificate
>> when you can renew through InstantSSL.com for only $449?
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Bill Laakkonen
Internet Marketing 1, Inc
4066 Evans Ave
Fort Myers FL 33901
+1.941.936.5461
+1-866-247-1326
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