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Re:The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services by tyingq on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:53PM (#13496542)
They control a popular public dns server, a CA, a global local cache, and control over the most popular browser and phone. They have all the pieces to do almost seamless MITM.

"We see you haven't signed up yet for AMP, so we've done the work for you"

Yes, I get they wouldn't do this, but the fact that they could is a little scary.

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Re:The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services by imatworkyo on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:20AM (#13498123)
whats even more scary, is Google being able to tell what site is valid/secure. Imagine the implications if they limited who could get CA's or decided the information on your site was harmful
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