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Surveillance firm asks Mozilla to be included in Firefox's certificate whitelist
[...] The vendor is named DarkMatter, a cyber-security firm based in the United Arab Emirates that has been known to sell surveillance and hacking services to oppressive regimes in the Middle East
[...] On one side Mozilla is pressured by organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International, and The Intercept to decline DarkMatter's request, while on the other side DarkMatter claims it never abused its TLS certificate issuance powers for anything bad, hence there's no reason to treat it any differently from other CAs that have applied in the past.
Fears and paranoia are high because Mozilla's list of trusted root certificates is also used by some Linux distros. Many fear that once approved on Mozilla's certificate store list, DarkMatter may be able to issue TLS certificates that will be able to intercept internet traffic without triggering any errors on some Linux systems, usually deployed in data centers and at cloud service providers.
In Google Groups and Bugzilla discussions on its request, DarkMatter has denied any wrongdoing or any intention to do so.
The company has already been granted the ability to issue TLS certificates via an intermediary, a company called QuoVadis, now owned by DigiCert.
Also at Electronic Frontier Foundation
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:33PM (3 children)
But they have never abused their super powers in any detectable way that you know of or ever will know of. So they have a clean track record and only intend good for all humanity.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:25PM (2 children)
You forgot the "/s" :-))
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:38PM (1 child)
Oh? I thought I had included it: and only intend good for all humanity
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:11PM
It was pretty obvious to me, but you know how some of our resident trolls can be.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--