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Re:SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login by tmottabr on Saturday June 03, 2017 @02:51AM (#14475343)
What he is referring to is that you can add EV certs to IE via group policies.

So your company can make any site show the green ev bar in IE.

This cannot be done in any other browser so in firefox, chrome and everyone else a green bar means a valid ev cert from a real certificate autority.

On the other hand in IE a green bar does not mean anything because group policy can make any cert show as ev with green bar and all.

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Re:SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login by MichaelGG on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:27AM (#14476510)
And if you're running a device where other people have root, then you probably shouldn't be trusting binaries to display certain colours.
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