Priceless: “The Issuer Certificate Is Unknown”
February 7, 2009
17:38
Another example of the all-so-frightening invalid HTTPS certificate warning in Firefox 3.0. I just found this one to be a bit ironic 
BTW The Mossad website is mostly for recruiting purposes, they don’t really let you search their archives on-line or anything… to bad, that could have been interesting 
(and one more thing: yes, it’s “The Mossad” and not just “Mossad” as it’s frequently mis-translated in foreign media. “Mossad” literally means “Institute” or maybe in a less literal translation, “Agency”. There are many institutes and agencies, but there is only one “The Institute”)
You don’t have to be surprised. Israeli people are known for their “Trust me, it would be ok” (סמוך עלי, יהיה בסדר) moto.
There are some other official government websites using certificates issued by unknown authorities. The good news is that they are in the process of becoming trusted in Firefox, maybe even in the 3.0 branch, but it was long time ago and it is possible the approach abandoned since than.
Tomer.