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Re: This seem legit...

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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This just seems like some newbie programmer was like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if"... and built themselves a weekend project that they released on the site. Obviously it's terrible for a site that sells SSL stuff, but concluding that this is the NSA is pretty hugely premature. edit: Duh, didn't pick up on the sarcasm. In my defense, the parent…

To be fair, I'm pretty sure he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But point well made. Whenever this point comes up I think of a scene from 'the cube', is it a massive conspiracy or utter incompetence combined with some kind emergent process?

Or likely the NSA firmly has their tongue in their cheek teasing and scaring us because they can.

Re: This seem legit...

#63

Hi, The tool was made available for customers to legitimately check if the Private Key matched the SSL Certificate that was being installed - a common question and feature request from our customers. However, upon review of the comments made in the internet community we have made a decision to remove this specific tool and to review all other tools that we make publicly available via our websites. We also saw a heavy…

Since you are a site that sells SSL certificates, it would be appropriate for you to enforce HTTPS when communicating with your website.

Re: This seem legit...

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I'd rather use this 1PtQmxewNJWYeDUieM2cLqU9XcAoBEfWaQ You send the money there, it sends you back the double amount.

Doesn't work for me. Maybe I need to send a bigger amount for it to trigger?

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