A statement which is untrue, completely and utterly wrong.
Denial is good.
But it is no more than a marketing technique when Verisign's own warranty declaration and CPS say what I affirm and you deny. This question gains in importance as we remember that there is no international law system that uniquely defines matters, not even in the same country. So, a cert user represents an open risk also in the legal sense, and not only in terms of key-snatching, virus, etc. Given the overabundance of lawyers in the US alone and the growing attitude of finding culprits for one's own lack of foresight, any CA that makes an offer to the whole world, capable of acceptance without communication and by mere conduct, is suicidal. No, if PKIX is being designed to work within a company or in a bounded environment, where subscribers and users share a common and pre-existent trusted environment.