Re: Class Libel Suit anyone ?
The technology ensures the encryption. They (Symantec and it's partners that it trusted to use it's CA) had one job, to ensure that people were who they said they were.That was the value of their CA and they through lack of control destroyed that value, and then acted like it was not their problem. The only reason you include a CA is because you trust the owner to do that one thing and Symantec failed in that one thing.
There may be a class action by cert owners but my guess is it will be against Symantec. Symantec are about the only party that can sue Google and I wish them good luck with that.
As any competent organisation should have a process for changing certs anything above the BAU expenses of the change are entirely self inflicted. If your crappy Symantec cert cost you billions in lost sales is that Semantics' fault down to your company's failure to change the cert.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
