Time for the periodic reminder that the only recourse a browser vendor has against a wayward CA is to write passive-aggressive posts on the internet and waggle their finger a bit. They can’t be removed without breaking things and they know it.
Compared with a system like Convergence, where if a notary put even one toe out of line they could be dropped from every major browser tomorrow and no one would notice the difference.
Time for the periodic reminder that the only recourse a browser vendor has against a wayward CA is to write passive-aggressive posts on the internet and waggle their finger a bit. They can’t be removed without breaking things and they know it.
Compared with a system like Convergence, where if a notary put even one toe out of line they could be dropped from every major browser tomorrow and no one would notice the difference.
Convergence