Is DarkMatter an evil spying empire?

AppDefects — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:57:44 GMT

Mozilla says they will no longer trust root certificates from the UAE firm DarkMatter, ending months of discussion (in Google groups here) trying to stay white-listed in Firefox. They have contributed to exposing APT34 and other threats. Are they evil? The Intercept seems to think so.

On a side note have you wondered about how many CA certificates are included in a Mozilla bundle? If you are building/delivering a software platform then you need to keep your cacert.pem up-to-date!

Date Certificates

2019-05-15	140
2019-01-23	135
2018-12-05	128
2018-10-17	129
2018-06-20	132
2018-03-07	133
2018-01-17	138
2017-09-20	143
2017-06-07	155
2017-01-18	158

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Is DarkMatter an evil spying empire?