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by tptacek 564 days ago
That's true, but in the bad-old-days of the antidiluvian WebPKI it was somewhat routine to sell big companies CA=YES certs simply to allow them to do this universally without pushing out updates to all their endpoints. It was a terrible, bad practice, and so far as I know it's completely dead now --- except for Microsoft, I guess.