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Fuming Google tears Symantec a new one over rogue SSL certs

Friday 30th October 2015 06:52 GMT Vincent Ballard

In other news, grass is green. Generating fake certificates is also used by web nanny type software and the NSA to do man-in-the-middle attacks.

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