alt Hacker NewsYou mean the response was uneven. The impact was a complete and total potential compromise of literally everyone. Every domain. Every client using one of the public root programs. Every user of those clients.
You mean the response was uneven. The impact was a complete and total potential compromise of literally everyone. Every domain. Every client using one of the public root programs. Every user of those clients.
I mean, it's an emergency, but the acute severity is debatable; many times a month the major browsers quietly deal with vulnerabilities that yield attackers direct control of victim computers; here, attackers get the ability to spoof websites if they're in a position to hijack connections.
The middlebox situation, with non-updatable roots, is very annoying. But middleboxes also have unfixable RCEs, so...
It's totally fair to evaluate different projects by how well positioned they are to update their WebPKI trust anchors. I'm just saying, keep perspective.