[governance] Verisign to control what operating systems you can run on your computer

Roland Perry roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri Jun 8 06:51:26 EDT 2012


In message <4FD1C8C1.8070508 at digsys.bg>, at 12:41:21 on Fri, 8 Jun 2012, 
Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> writes
>There is of course the unfortunate involvement in all this for 
>Verisign. I wonder here however, because Verisign actually sold the 
>certificates business to Symantec last year. Are they starting again? 
>Not likely. So it will be really Symantec, to take all the bad press

"Verisign Authentication Services" are still "from Symantec" it seems.

A bit like IBM laptops being 'from Lenovo'. (IBM has also sold its hard 
drive and printer businesses)
-- 
Roland Perry

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