To state the obvious (again) the third-party based trust system underlying TLS is broken. It places a massive amount of faith in a large crowd of human beings (

To state the obvious (again) the third-party based trust system underlying TLS is broken. It places a massive amount of faith in a large crowd of human beings (the collective employee populations of all the CA's in the world) to behave with absolute rectitude and discipline for years and years without fail. The sad part is that all of us, collectively, trust pretty much our entire financial lives and other matters requiring secrecy and authentication to this system everyday. It's mind-boggling how we came to be in this situation. How did the entire society, including very very smart security experts came to vouch for and blindly trust this system?