Mis-Used Term on (ISC)2 Site - "Digital Certificate"

[CraginS]

This note is a request for the (ISC)2 staff to correct an error on the main isc2.org Members Only drop down from the home page.

Under the first column is the term Digital Certificates. Clicking on that term leads to a file download window, allowing download of a PDF file of the member's (ISC)2 Certification certificate.

Please change that phrase to Download Your Certificate as PDF.

Within the infosec community the term digital certificate has a very specific technical meaning with regard to the world of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), asymmetric encryption, server certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS), and digital signatures (not to be confused with electronic signatures). A major portion of our (ISC)2 membership deals directly with those PKI issues regularly, and has locked in on the technical definition. As a result, most of us see that item and think that (ISC)2 is running a Certification Authority (CA) server, and can issue PKI certificates to members, suitable for digitally signing and encrypting e-mail and other documents. Obviously, not so.

Since the term is used on a part of the (ISC)2 site accessible only to registered site users, that is members and certification aspirants, we should be using the correct terminology there, and not misleading members expecting a true PKI-based digital certificate.

Thank you.

[Flyslinger2]

I can't wait for the day when Bots (read AI) start self-generating code.  That next AI induced robo call will get flagged.  A lawsuit will commence. 

Judge to the lawyer of the plaintiff: "We seem to have a problem getting representation for the Bot. Who wrote the code?" 

Plaintiff's lawyer: "It seems to have been generated by AI, sir."

Judge: "So code developed code?"

Lawyer: "Yes sir."

There's a heavy echo through the chamber as the judge whacks his gavel on the desk.

Judge: "I rule in favor of AI!"

Gazillions of bits light up the Net as more Bots start churning out AI code in response.

====================================================

Maybe then the lunacy will stop?

[rslade]

> CraginS (Contributor II) posted a new reply in Member Support on 10-02-2018

>  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or
> interact with another person in California online,

Hmmmm, that would seem to limit it to two people (or a people and a bot) in
California, but ...

> with the intent to mislead
> the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly
> deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to
> incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction

... otherwise if what I suspect about nancy and crystal being used by marketing is
true, then ISC2 might be in trouble ...

====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
The Auditors avoided death by never going so far as to get a
life. They strove to be as indistinguishable as hydrogen atoms,
and with none of the latter's joie de vivre.
- `Thief of Time,' Terry Pratchett
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://twitter.com/rslade
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
https://is.gd/RotlWB

[rslade]

> Flyslinger2 (Contributor II) posted a new reply in Member Support on 10-02-2018

>   Maybe then the lunacy
> will stop?

I think that Singularitily unlikely ...

====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://twitter.com/rslade
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
https://is.gd/RotlWB

[HTCPCP-TEA]

Is it entirely inappropriate that I laughed, quite audibly, at this?

Several members of my team just looked at me as if I'd introduced a RAT to the finance systems.

[rslade]

> HTCPCP-TEA (Newcomer III) posted a new reply in Member Support on 10-09-2018

> Is it entirely inappropriate that I laughed, quite audibly, at this?   Several
> members of my team just looked at me as if I'd introduced a RAT to the finance
> systems.

It is a comfort to know that one brings joy to people's lives simply by one's existence ...

(It is, of course, quite possible that one does not exist, and is simply an artificial intelligence experiment gone horribly wrong, and hooked up to various email addresses ...)

[HTCPCP-TEA]

Indeed. But, should done bring joy to another's life, does it matter if one is indeed artificial or not?

[rslade]

> HTCPCP-TEA (Newcomer III) posted a new reply in Member Support on 10-11-2018

> Indeed. But, should done bring joy to another's life, does it matter if one is
> indeed artificial or not?

However, if I don't exist, how can I answer existential questions like that?

====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@computercrime.org
Hardware has grown following Moore's Law, software seems to be
stuck with Gresham's Law. - Jim Horning
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://twitter.com/rslade
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
https://is.gd/RotlWB