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You can't compare Symantec with Apple and MS, since Apple and MS are competent. If you think someone might sue Google, on what basis? And Google is more than c
by kartickv 10y ago
You can't compare Symantec with Apple and MS, since Apple and MS are competent.
If you think someone might sue Google, on what basis? And Google is more than capable of defending itself.
I agree about the time needed to make an orderly change, which is why I didn't propose that connections fail yet, only that they not be presented as secure in the UI.
- snowwrestler 10y agoApple and Microsoft buy their TLS certs from Symantec. All their sites would be affected if Chrome abruptly stopped trusting Symantec certs overnight. Imagine if everyone going to Apple.com in Chrome suddenly saw "site insecure" when they were trying to buy an iPhone--an area where Google is a direct competitor.