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ShaneOG on June 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free SSL Certificate for Open Source Projects

The question should not be "Why?" but rather "Why not?"

EGreg on June 7, 2014 [–]

Because it gives everyone a single point of failure to compromise - the certificate authority or any one in the CA chain.

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