[cpncrunch]

>Symantec is at the clear disadvantage.

I'm not sure how they are at a disadvantage if they have supplied 30% of in-use certificates, and are responsible for 42% of all validations.

While I don't condone Symantec's behaviour, I think google is being a bit hypocritical here. Have you ever tried reporting gmail spammers to google?

[SEJeff]

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]

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]

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