News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

chromaxs

Re:Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:33PM (#22436218)
Any CA can sign any certificate they want, including ones they generate themselves. If a bad actor got control of, or even could coerce, a CA, and could do the same for DNS, the end users would be hard pressed to know.

It's a very valid attack, although minimal. To say they don't have any way of MITM'ing a connection is wrong even if it's unlikely.