This should probably be a series. How many times have you read an article written by a "specialist" in some domain that you happen to know a bit about, only to realise that it's crap ? Crap that many people will read and believe.

Today I was sent this post titled "

Today I was doing some tests with someone's iPhone, I used various browsers to access this website using HTTPS. One of the tests I did was with Opera Mini. What shocked me was that with Opera Mini there were no certificate warnings at all. That's odd as my certificate is self signed.

A ...

More on Comodo as it seems that there was another attempt to generate more SSL certs. Very interesting is that COMODOHACKER explains ...

The other day I saw this presentation about Convergence, it is a system designed to avoid using your browser's built-in CA (certificate authorities) for authenticating SSL certificates. Marlin talks about how the system is broken and how

We [should] all know that trusting third party SSL roots is bad, but if you are still not convinced then read how Comodo's SSL service was compromised. In short a reseller account was broken into and from th...

Pidgin users with MSN accounts may have been experiencing problems connecting. It seems they have changed their certificate. The solution seems to be to manually delete the certificate, either by going to "Menu -> Tools -> Certificates" or by doing something like: