> This action was unexpected, and we believe the blog post was irresponsible.
Problems since Oct 2015 and the action unexpected? see 1)
> We hope it was not calculated to create uncertainty and doubt within the Internet community about our SSL/TLS certificates.
Symantec took no ownership of the issue. Snarky underhanded remarks are not a professional way to address shortcomings in managing their product.
> For example, Google’s claim that we have mis-issued 30,000 SSL/TLS certificates is not true. In the event Google is referring to, 127 certificates – not 30,000 – were identified as mis-issued, and they resulted in no consumer harm.
Per Chrome's team an initial set of reportedly 127 certificates has expanded to include at least 30,000 certificates, issued over a period spanning several years see 2)
Summary: No ownership and no action plan conveyed in Symantec's 421 word message.
We have 24 hours to go and the campaign will not be extended - this is an all-or-nothing campaign.
This is it - right now, we need a miracle.
We DO still have 24 hours. And we DO have 462 amazing and awesome people who care enough to have contributed to the campaign. As well as those who have joined our mailing list and liked our Facebook page recently. Most of the contributions on the campaign so far are small ones, but even the small ones make a really big difference when there's enough of them.
But today we're asking: are you our miracle?
Can you send our campaign to someone who can get it more coverage? Do you know someone who might be able to buy a prototype?
Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.”
So we should consider Francis Collins & James Watson "research parasites"?
Without their own analysis of other researcher's data the double helix would not have been discovered.
You cannot control information/data just because you gathered it. Pick up your marbles because you do not like what your pears concluded?
Science is based on reproducibility and peer review.
Peer review without full access to data is a fallacy.
Problems since Oct 2015 and the action unexpected? see 1)
> We hope it was not calculated to create uncertainty and doubt within the Internet community about our SSL/TLS certificates.
Symantec took no ownership of the issue. Snarky underhanded remarks are not a professional way to address shortcomings in managing their product.
> For example, Google’s claim that we have mis-issued 30,000 SSL/TLS certificates is not true. In the event Google is referring to, 127 certificates – not 30,000 – were identified as mis-issued, and they resulted in no consumer harm.
Per Chrome's team an initial set of reportedly 127 certificates has expanded to include at least 30,000 certificates, issued over a period spanning several years see 2)
Summary: No ownership and no action plan conveyed in Symantec's 421 word message.
1) https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-c...
2) https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...