[bobajeff]

>there are teams of people whose job is to prevent something like this from happening in the first place.

Reading that along with the rest of this thread reminds me just how bad it is to have so much of the internet rely on large sites like this. The amount of trust and dependency that rests on Google is very dangerous. The amount of damage to the world that could result in a failure of their service is beyond imagination.

[ethbro]

On the other hand, it lets them do things like certificate pinning for themselves in their own browser, no? So, good and bad.

[forgottenpass]

Chrome could ship pinned certs for whatever sites they want to cooperate with.

Vertical integration just means that Chrome cooperates more with Google's webadmins than Twitter's.