[geofft]

I think your outrage is properly directed, and I agree with you that this is way too nice an ending for Symantec.

However, I don't think that anyone is actually going to make Symantec as contaminated as you or I want. If the people at DigiCert who were competent yesterday are operating Symantec's infrastructure today, that infrastructure is now trustworthy. And in buying and salvaging it, DigiCert did the community a service: instead of leaving us in this ambiguous position where a too-big-to-fail CA was calling up Google executives to potentially overrule engineering decisions, that CA is now no longer a threat.

[justinjlynn]

I know, and it is impotent rage... still, one can dream. We'll see to what extent Symantec invades digicert in the future.