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What's that smell? Oh, it's Newegg cracked open by card slurpers

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Re: Certificate does not equal legimitate - never has

@FlamingDeath

Most browsers would also warn with something like "this page contains insecure content". That should be a big red flag on a checkout page!

I remember when you had to show that you are a legitimate legal entity to get an SSL certificate. Those days are long gone, and now we have this crap. It seems that EV certificates were an attempt to make certificates attributable to a legal entity again.

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