Slashdot and O’Reilly just picked this up:

SonOfGates writes “Well, the Aussies have invaded Boston but at least they’re not throwing tea into the harbor. AU-based nonprofit CAcert Inc has spent the last few days at USENIX ‘04 registering new users by the truckload. They bill themselves as a ‘Community-Based CA.’ Could this be the begining of a true ‘open’ certificate authority? See the O’Reilly story and press release.”

The Slashdot entry is here.