{"id":298,"date":"2011-09-07T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:13:22","slug":"diginotar-and-paying-for-an-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/diginotar-and-paying-for-an-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"#DigiNotar and paying for an audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple should be asking themselves now is:<\/p>\n<p>Which other CA do they trust based on an audit by PwC? Their green light on DigiNotar was so flawed that I have serious doubts about anyone else they certified as a trustworthy CA.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit like the financial rating agencies at the height of the 2008 banking crisis: why the hell should I trust the audit\/rating of someone who is paid by the people they are auditing\/rating and who need an &#8220;all fine&#8221;\/AAA result?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple should be asking themselves now is: Which other CA do they trust based on an audit by PwC? Their green light on DigiNotar was so flawed that I have serious doubts about anyone else they certified as a trustworthy CA. This is a bit like the financial rating agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}