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Re: Verisign's public opinion play

  • From: Steve Feldman
  • Date: Tue Oct 07 02:26:23 2003 
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> 
> 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"...

>From the bottom of those CNET articles:
    Contact us: http://news.com.com/2040-1096_3-0.html

Couldn't hurt to try...

Also, Declan's articles on Sept. 16 was most definitely not
a Verisign press release, see:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5077530.html?tag=st_rn

	Steve