Comment by dspillett

> The only way to be safe is to be informed

Unfortunately getting everyone into an informed state is a massive and so far unattainable task, and those not well-informed are not just a potential danger to themselves but to the rest of the network, so we need fail-safe protections in place and to not encourage people to disable them for the sake of convenience.

> Don't trust anyone but yourself.

But do encourage people to trust a CA they have no knowledge how to verify? That CA could also sign things that happen in the background so trusting is potentially trusting a huge portion of the Internet with no further stopping points for the user to verify trust. Your point seems to be internally contradictory.