On: Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate

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Maybe they weren't thinking much, but the business in the application is

"Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates"

I think the joke about "honest" comes from the used car salesman bit and the "Achmed" comes from the Iran hack.

It is perhaps unfortunate that they came together in a way that sounds like a stereotype about dishonest Arabs (I hadn't heard of this stereotype before reading the thread).

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I don't think it's particular to Arabs, dishonesty is attributed to any "not them" group by prejudiced people

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Car salesman are Dishonest.

At last here, more than half of car sales man are of arab origin.

Hence that made me laugh and I do not feel like I'm a racist.