Conspiracy is a handy add-on that displays in the statusbar the involved Certification Authorities (CAs) for secured pages country`s flag.
In other words, the Conspiracy extension will show you the flag symbols, for each country (up to 7) involved in issuing the X.509 certificate, which is used by a https site you visit, or that you recently visited (within the last couple of seconds, knowingly, or implicitly as part of redirects).
Whenever you visit a secured web site, using the https/SSL protocol, your browser decides whether the site should be shown as secured or not. The browser chrome may show a padlock icon, different background colors for the web site`s address, etc.
The decision will be based on trust for certain Certificate Authorities (CA) that are shipped with your browser, or which might be installed on your operating system. This may include your personal or you employer`s modifications to that predefined trust.
It is important to note what kind of trust this is about. It`s not about being good or bad. It`s about who you are talking to, and whether it can be verified. Maybe those who can be identified are less likely to do very bad things, because they can be tracked down. But can you rely on that?
You probably should not, you are on your own. If you make business with a site, and you learn it treats you bad, you can learn from your mistakes.
You can find out more about the Conspiracy add-on from here.
NOTE: The Conspiracy add-on is cross-platform and it works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Requirements:
· Firefox 3.5 to 4.0.*
· SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre to 2.1a1pre
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Now displaying name of current CA. Adjusted labels
