[thelist] OT: Microsoft digital certificate stolen

[Whitten, Gary]

Actually, it isn't as rare as you might think.  A simple misconfiguration
can generate this, as well as a certificate expiring.

-----Original Message-----
From: Green, Janet [mailto:JGreen at DesMoinesMetro.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:48 PM
To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
Subject: RE: [thelist] OT: Microsoft digital certificate stolen


How likely is it that the average web surfer will encounter this, or receive
these popup dialog boxes, actually giving them the opportunity to reject the
pages? 

>>>>Web browsers generally encounter such certificates
when the arrive on a Web site that has an ActiveX control,
which allows dynamic content. Usually, a dialog box pops up
asking the users if they would like to trust the code and
allow it to run on the their machines.<<<


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