[notabee]

A lot of certificate management services for enterprise customers "helpfully" store the private key files. How many cloud or SaaS vendors automatically handle the private keys as well instead of them being generated and staying securely only on the systems using them? So there are still points of centralization to attack, potentially.

[astrange]

Yes, state actors have been known to steal things like codesigning keys. Microsoft had that happen recently where someone with persistence on a dev machine sniffed them out of crash logs(!).

But it requires a lot more steps.