The public wasn't lied to, or even spoken to - some browser makers just slapped a band-aid on a broken system to prevent it from visibly falling apart. People (

The public wasn't lied to, or even spoken to - some browser makers just slapped a band-aid on a broken system to prevent it from visibly falling apart. People (but not necessarily Mozilla et al. - think cryptographers) should arguably be fixing the system instead, but it's a hard problem and immediate fixes would be needed anyway.