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Comment by bananapub

3 years ago

why do you keep making this incorrect claim?

it was a DV cert, and it was considered validated because someone was MITMing the traffic. that would have worked against any CA, nothing at all to do with Let's Encrypt.

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codedokode  3 years ago

Corrected the comment to reflect that SSL cert infrastructure is ridiculously easy to hack.

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