So now VeriSign wants to keep our children safe. Uh huh, yeah sure. They're going to
issue a bunch of kids USB tokens for signing messages "so they can interact with anyone safely on the Internet, no matter where they are". Well, as long as they are talking to someone else who VeriSign has given a certificate to. And as long as they are at a computer that has the software for using the USB token for signing. And as long as you really think that just because VeriSign gave someone else a certificate, they're "safe". And and and.
It gets funnier. The tokens are going to hold certificates that are issued by the kids' schools. Given the huge success we have had with training corporate IT folks how to be CAs, I'm sure that the elementary school staff will do a fine job.
What a great way to teach kids the reality of how botched up the PKI is, often due to VeriSign.
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