Let's put Verisign to death
The best thing to come out of the Enron debacle was the swift and unrelenting vilification of Andersen. Enron may have been run by a pack of theiving, lying bastards, but that didn't come as a surprise to anyone -- they were in the energy-trading business, not the trustworthiness business. But Andersen, ah, they were in the trustworthiness business. Their entire value was as a disinterested, brutally honest third-party auditor. It's become clear -- to my surprise -- that Andersen can't ever rehabilitate their reputation. They have been sentenced to death by the marketplace for betraying its trust.
Another trustworthiness company, Verisign, deserves the same swift retribution. Verisign is a certifier of certificates, a manager of critical Internet infrastructure, and a pack of bumbling, cheating incompetents. Their Network Solutions division -- whose practices Verisign endorses with liberal sprinklings of logos and checkmarks -- is notorious for failing to do its duty to the Internet in maintaining the integrity of the Domain Name system that is in its charge. [boingboing.net]
Over the years I have had the pleasure of working with both Verisign and NetSol. It was a marrige from hell. Two companies with no ethics or values. My wife recently responded out of fear to one of Verisigns letters and renewed my domain. I had planned on moving to a new registrar. I guess their marketing worked. NetSol is a classic monopoly that still thinks like a monopoly. Death by a thousand cuts would be a good solution...mj
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