Unknown root certificate in Firefox

The Mozilla project has disclosed that Firefox currently contains a root certificate authority that nobody knows anything about. "I have not been able to find the current owner of this root. Both RSA and VeriSign have stated in email that they do not own this root. Therefore, to my knowledge this root has no current owner and no current audit, and should be removed from NSS." It seems past time for the user community to start paying more attention to the root certificates accepted by our browsers.

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