2 #CertificateAuthorities booted from the good graces of #Chrome

#Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year” diminished trust in their reliability.

The 2 orgs, #Taiwan -based #ChunghwaTelecom & #Budapest -based #Netlock , are among the hundreds of cert auth trusted by Chrome & most other #browsers to provide digital certificates that #encrypt traffic

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/chrome-boots-2-certificate-authorities-citing-a-lack-of-trust-and-confidence/

Google is shaking up web security by ditching certificates from Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock after repeated slip-ups. Could your website be at risk? Dive into the details!

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/googles-strategic-move-to-enhance-web-security-by-distrusting-chunghwa-telecom-and-netlock-certificates/

#google
#websecurity
#certificateauthority
#chunghwatelecom
#netlock

I’m trying to check if an old phone running #LineageOS in the US is network locked. It currently doesn’t have a SIM card in it, but I could put in inactive SIM in it if that would help.

I tried several online IMEI checkers. Besides being covered in ads, none of them showed the lock status.

Suggestions? Thanks!

#SimLock #NetLock