Uneasy Money: Is the Internet Breaking Because Bots Never Get Lazy?

A certificate authority's private key was the number 4 for over a year. Kain, Taylor, and Austin on why the internet's trust schemes are cracking.

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For more than a year, the private key behind signatures from a certificate authority trusted across the internet was the number 4.