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Re:Symantec Issues Intermediate CA Certificate for Blue Coat... by Aoreias on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:27PM (#11782547)
Sure, but if they started issuing MitM certs ANYWHERE then Symantec would have no choice but to revoke the CA's certificate. It doesn't matter if the CA was functioning for a corrupt regime or a well-intentioned business legitimately MitM'ing employees traffic.

If Symantec didn't revoke the certificate then it would almost certainly lead to their root certificate being untrusted by major browsers and destroy their entire certificate business.

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Re:Symantec Issues Intermediate CA Certificate for Blue Coat... by lallysingh on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:41PM (#11782657)
Between the time of issue and renovation, a lot of people can get arrested, monitored, or blackmailed.
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Re:Symantec Issues Intermediate CA Certificate for Blue Coat... by glasz on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:37PM (#11783279)
that's how the beautiful rule of law works. damage done, people killed, complaint rejected, "overruled".
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