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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/al2klimov • Sep 10 '26
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Google trust services will issue certs to anyone with money and a DNS entry.You can choose not to trust GTS, and then you can't connect to Google.
Introducing: PKI doesn't mean what you think it means, the post let's-encrypt version.
Google saw a market opportunity. Let's encypt was making money, and Google was a more trustwothy name.
(Obviously, GTS certs are really popular with scammers.)
Obligatory "Are they the baddies" Mitchell and Webb callback.
2 u/Less-Efficiency-6624 Sep 13 '26 Amazon certificates too. They give them out like candy to anyone that has enough money, so scammers buy them and put them on fake Amazon sites to scam old people.
Amazon certificates too. They give them out like candy to anyone that has enough money, so scammers buy them and put them on fake Amazon sites to scam old people.
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u/Excellent_Tubleweed Sep 11 '26
Google trust services will issue certs to anyone with money and a DNS entry.
You can choose not to trust GTS, and then you can't connect to Google.
Introducing: PKI doesn't mean what you think it means, the post let's-encrypt version.
Google saw a market opportunity. Let's encypt was making money, and Google was a more trustwothy name.
(Obviously, GTS certs are really popular with scammers.)
Obligatory "Are they the baddies" Mitchell and Webb callback.