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>Compromising a CA is not trivial and due to CT it’s almost certain that such an attempt will be uncovered later. The CA ecosystem has improved a lot in recent years, please update your views accordingly.

This is simply not true. Governments can simply compel your CA to do as they want. Not to mention that "uncovered later" is pretty damn worthless.

That said, I do agree that there should be HTTPS mirrors.




> Not to mention that "uncovered later" is pretty damn worthless.

It is not worthless as a deterrent to the CA. Proof of a fraudulently issued certificate are grounds to permanently distrust the CA. So, yes, they can do it, but hopefully only once.




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