All that's require are scanned documents. And these documents can easily be tampered with or photoshopped. You may think your company details are checked before the cert is issued, but that's crap. We email our docs to a US company, and all the docs are issued by Irish government departments. There's no way in hell that some guy in what amounts to a call centre in the US has access to any Irish database to prove or disprove their validity. SSL certs are a crock of shit - all you need to do to get one you're not entitled to is to be slightly outside the norm, and claiming any small country as your location is good enough for that. Hell, you could make up your own government departments and documents, and that'd be good enough for must of these companies.
Give me a break. This is like saying all online security is a sham because I can always physically break into your office. You know how many times a real CA has fucked up and accidentally issued a Bank of America certificate to organized criminals in Estonia? ZERO.
You can say it's crap all you want, but until you've worked inside a CA and seen what goes on - you know shit. Good luck ordering a cert with your 'shopped docs...
Unless it turns out that people really do want it. In which case you've just pissed off hundreds or thousands of your potential early adopters with a 404 page, and demonstrated that you can't even build and link to a simple, basic, web page. And, come on, who here does not hit F5 when they reach a 404 page? I've never heard of anything so stupid in my life - the guy who dreamed this up has just got to have an MBA.
No offence, but the numbers are simply too low to read anything meaningful into them. I'm guessing you never even reached page three of Reddit, with less than 700 hits.
I don't see how you can possibly draw any conclusions from this. For example, if you'd reached close to the top on Reddit, would the figures progress in the same way? I very much doubt it.
The "hits" number is the number of hits in that hour. Move your mouse left and right, and you'll see he got 376 in the first hour, 565 in the second, 721 in the next, and so on.
