Comment I reported similiar issue back in 2003 (Score 1) 300
I wrote a similiar article back in 2003 for 2600 magazine.
I copied it here to my blog right now (so you don't need to find it in paper edition of 2600 magazine):
http://jooray.soup.io/post/10105517/State-of-art-certificates-Whom-do-you
Seems nothing has changed in five years.