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Comodo is giving away free Certificates to Symantec customers https://www.comodo.com/Google-Chrome-announces-proposal-to-d...

For those considering Comodo, I'd ask that you reconsider.

They tried to trademark LetsEncrypt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964583

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973232

Bad OCR led to certificates being issued to the wrong people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761248

They created their own Superfish-like adware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091917

Don't forget Chromodo which was a reskin of Chrome with --disable-web-security set. Because that totally makes their browser super secure!

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