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by pokemon-trainer 3439 days ago
That's very much a libertarian style nuclear option to remove a CA from the root store. Why can't the industry work out a fine to pay an ICANN-like org for root CAs when it happens?
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A large percent of phishing sites are hacked wordpress sites.

So if a CA offers a certificate to a legitimate wordpress site, which then proceeds to let itself get hacked and host a phishing page, that CA now has to pay a fine?