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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:39:44 -0500, Coyo <coyo AT darkdna.net> wrote:

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> 
> On 4/8/2014 3:37 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:29:49 -0500, Coyo <coyo AT darkdna.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> start our own CA? how do you get browsers to accept it?
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, look what they did to Spybot for it's anti-establishment attitude.
> 
> I can't find an article on it, but I can imagine what the CA Mafia did
> to them.
> 
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By "they" I meant "the establishment". As soon as anti-virus programs started 
covering malware, Spybot has since gotten terrible reviews, some of which 
were proven to be based on dated defs. You started seeing 1-star editor 
ratings next to 5-star ones (this was formerly on CNET but they adjusted it 
after their studies were exposed to be fraudulent). Also, a number of 
antivirus programs refuse to install unless Spybot is removed first 
(including Trend Micro and McAfee, which Spybot calls "malicious" because of 
control taken from the user).

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-Dan Q