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Comment by dannyw

I really don't understand your justification.

One of the certificates literally has a private key of 4; it's as compromised as it could quite possibly be. This is not a "one of the intermediates have a weak and possibly crackable key" or "a bunch of incorrect certs were issued but the issuance was patched".

To a MITM attacker, git clones can be easily distinguished from visiting in Safari. You could choose to only poison git clones; without poisoning anything else.

Heck, you can probably build an exploit kit in a hour; camp out around a Starbucks or McDonalds with open wifi, and start compromising git clones and deliver malicious payloads.

parent dannyw 12 days ago

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