Symantec employees fired for issuing rogue HTTPS certificate for Google

Unauthorized credential was trusted by all browsers, but Google never authorized it.

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Unauthorized credential was ... never authorized

Huh. Who'da thunk it.

 

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NetworkElf[/url]":qqlkq82g]

JamesKatt[/url]":qqlkq82g]Issuing fake certificates so one can impersonate Google is something I'd expect the NSA to do. It makes you think about who these fired employees actually work for.

"What can we get away with? Will anybody notice?"

Organizations like the NSA and FBI prey on an unaware, unsuspecting public.

You might be right... but so does everybody else. Take Volkswagen, for example.