Mozilla takes hard stance on protecting Web site certificates
It's happened to everyone -- you visit a Web site and instead of the browser taking you directly to it, you get a notice that says you're about to visit an untrusted site. The reason this happens is because the browser hasn't certified the site.
This type of action could mean a slow death for such a Web site, since messages like these tend to scare off users.
Mozilla, Firefox's parent company, is now contemplating whether to give international telecom giant TeliaSonera this type of punishment, according to the Register. Apparently Mozilla might refuse to include a new root certificate in Firefox's list of trusted Certificate Authorities for TeliaSonera and the Web sites of the dozens of companies the telecom giant either owns or partially owns.
