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SEJeff on March 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing ...

Sans maybe spear phishers, spam campaigns aren't generally ran by oppressive governments. MiTM certs with bogus certs absolutely are, and could result in jail / death.

EFF ftw!

https://ssd.eff.org/

cpncrunch on March 23, 2017 [–]

I'm simply pointing out that both companies seem to think they can do what they want, due to having such large market share.

Do we know that Symantec is being malicious, or just lazy like Google's response to spam?

williamscales on March 23, 2017 | [–]

This is a real security issue and spam isn't.

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