Even IRS.gov has an invalid SSL. Is big bad Google going to penalize the IRS?
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This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.irs.gov, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.
What Should I Do?
If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
www.irs.gov uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaized.net, *.akamaized-staging.net (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
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The big winners from this are companies like VeriSign who sell SSL certificates.