Re: Brigadoon Software kosher?

Snufkin wrote:
I was investigating installing MacPhoneHome for my iBook. It's a utility that claims to be able to find the "exact location" of the computer and sends it covertly to a designated email address every time the computer is connected to the Internet. But when I attempted to download the trial software, Safari spat the dummy and warned that it couldn't identify the indentity of "www.pcphonehome.com", noting that it was signed by an unknown certification authority, with the attendant risk it may be a spoof site.

I'm guessing the download form you fill out to get the download redirects to an HTTPS page, and Safari is notifying you that the certificate that is associated with these pages is not verifiable.

This may be something as simply as you not having a local cert for their CA, or they are using a self-signed cert.

Of course, the lack of a properly setup site certificate has no bearing on the quality (or lack thereof) of the software offered by the site.
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