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Comments on: Mystery over Verisign boss' shock exit

natural tipping point 

Posted Friday 4th July 2008 14:20 GMT

Dead Vulture

..and he was in the bit that got "tipped". Hire 'em cheap push 'em out before you have to give them a pay review.

Personal consequences 

Posted Friday 4th July 2008 22:22 GMT

Linux

Maybe they'd just found out that their root certificates were generated on Debian...

Root certificates? What root certificates? 

Posted Monday 7th July 2008 08:19 GMT

We're talking about Verisign; the only root *anything* they're associated with is the perpetual root-canal-without-anaesthetic they give their paying victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husees...

ROTM 

Posted Monday 7th July 2008 08:44 GMT

Alien

This is clearly another sign that the Cylons are preparing their attack on humanity: Roper, and before him Sclavos, discovered that the Cylons are in control of everything that secures the internet. Therefore they had to be disposed of. They now have the means to control the whole human race: (i) online shopping (all females); (ii) net pR0n (all males). It's all in the tea leaves, just stop using the evil monstrosity that are tea bags!

Incidentally amanfromMars has known about this all along but is he our Dalek Caan or Gaius Baltar...

Why Does it Matter? 

Posted Monday 7th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Why should we care? Another overpaid CEO goes. Its not good or bad. Never saw any use for Verisign's products anyway. Just make's life more expensive and complicated, there are other ways to create trusted electronic relationships. Its like saying Blahnik, YSL, Versace, Picasso, died, none did anything of value to the greater mass of humanity, just took money off the rich, don't care. Brian Catt

verisign and ceo's 

Posted Monday 7th July 2008 18:23 GMT

Linux

...Wasn't there something a bit murky about the past of both? I can plead old age at this point.

--Glenn

30th June 

Posted Thursday 10th July 2008 12:12 GMT

Gates Horns

Hmmm - what's in a date BillyBoy? Didja take yer mate with you?