> TLS wiretapping with root-CA-signed certificates is a thing that both happens and verifiably has happened. (...) This being a fact rather than a conspiracy theory tends to upset people.
Maybe what people get upset about is catchy misleading [0] summaries like this, which suggest [0] a CA - nation state collusion, despite the actual story going in a completely different [0] direction? The thing that would be actually big news [0]?
[0] in the eye of the beholder of course, as always
I thought certificate transparency was the thing that was supposed to prevent exactly what this article is describing. What if anything is incorrect about my model of the world in this respect?
>the various ACME clients like acme.sh are run with elevated privileges
Its really not that difficult to not grant excessive privileges - at the very least for recurring ("cron") runs, once filesystem structure, cache invalidation triggers and web server configuration are in place. Its a shame this is still taught in the "just run as admin" style.