Another mishap from Indian Govt. IT Dept: NIC gets rap for issuing fake digital certificates.

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LiveMint.com said:
Google has blocked several digital certificates issued in India that could have been used to make bogus websites appear to be run by the Web giant.

The digital certificates were issued by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), part of India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology that handles e-government projects, wrote Adam Langley, a Google security engineer, on Tuesday.

Read more: NIC gets rap for issuing fake digital certificates - Livemint

Apparently, only Chrome users were affected, firefox use it's own list of trusted certs and hence not affected.

shinystar said:
How come such big blunders are not noticed by even a single honest man........
A big LKoop Hole in System will lead to no rise of our country.

Reported for bumping old threads unnecessarily.

SaiyanGoku said:
Reported for bumping old threads unnecessarily.

I thought, it's a new news until i saw your post.