Russian Censor Bans Comodo... Doesn't Realize Its Own Security Certificate Is From Comodo

Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 26 July 2016
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As pointed out by Fight Copyright Trolls, it appears that Roskomnadzor may have gone a bit overboard recently, in response to a court ruling that had a massive list of sites to be banned (over a thousand pages). Apparently, as part of that, various sites associated with Comodo were all banned.

It's not entirely clear the impact of this, but the Rublacklist site appears to be implying (via my attempt at understanding Google translate's translation...) that this also means that sites that rely on Roskomnadzor's registry of sites to block... may be blocked from accessing the list. Because its own site is effectively blocked by the list.

Comodo could just revoke all certificates issues to .ru domains and see how that works out. If someone does not want to do business with you, you don't do business with them. Easy.