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Wall Street shut down for the long July 4 weekend pondering a puzzler. It emerged yesterday that Verisign CEO Bill Roper had suddenly quit the firm to be replaced by the firm's founder and chairman, Jim Bidzos. Roper took the helm at Verisign only last year. The firm said in its statement to investors and the media that he had …

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  1. Olly Simmons
    Dead Vulture

    natural tipping point

    ..and he was in the bit that got "tipped". Hire 'em cheap push 'em out before you have to give them a pay review.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Linux

    Personal consequences

    Maybe they'd just found out that their root certificates were generated on Debian...

  3. Ian McNee
    Alien

    ROTM

    This is clearly another sign that the Cylons are preparing their attack on humanity: Roper, and before him Sclavos, discovered that the Cylons are in control of everything that secures the internet. Therefore they had to be disposed of. They now have the means to control the whole human race: (i) online shopping (all females); (ii) net pR0n (all males). It's all in the tea leaves, just stop using the evil monstrosity that are tea bags!

    Incidentally amanfromMars has known about this all along but is he our Dalek Caan or Gaius Baltar...

  4. Jeff Dickey

    Root certificates? What root certificates?

    We're talking about Verisign; the only root *anything* they're associated with is the perpetual root-canal-without-anaesthetic they give their paying victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husees...

  5. Brian Catt

    Why Does it Matter?

    Why should we care? Another overpaid CEO goes. Its not good or bad. Never saw any use for Verisign's products anyway. Just make's life more expensive and complicated, there are other ways to create trusted electronic relationships. Its like saying Blahnik, YSL, Versace, Picasso, died, none did anything of value to the greater mass of humanity, just took money off the rich, don't care. Brian Catt

  6. Glenn Charles
    Linux

    verisign and ceo's

    ...Wasn't there something a bit murky about the past of both? I can plead old age at this point.

    --Glenn

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Gates Horns

    30th June

    Hmmm - what's in a date BillyBoy? Didja take yer mate with you?

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