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by agwa 958 days ago
> You genuinely believe that the only possibility here is a vast conspiracy to defraud and steal?

Care to point out where I said that?

example.com and test.com are real domains, and their owners did not authorize those certificates to be issued, so issuing them was a serious breach of the trust which CAs are expected to uphold. Furthermore, the discovery of these certificates led to investigations which turned up additional issues which are documented in detail here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Symantec_Issues

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Certinomis_Issues