CEO of Trustico emails 23,000 HTTPS private keys, triggering panicked mass-revocation
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3HB64)
On Tuesday, the CEO of UK certificate reseller Trustico decided to settle an argument with Digicert executive VP Jeremy Rowley by emailing him the private keys for 23,000 TLS certificates that had been issued by Symantec's disgraced Certificate Authority, to prove they had been compromised. (more")