On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Peter Kurrasch <fhw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ‎Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the Superfish 
> debacle is that sites that have EV certs would get the green bar treatment on 
> other devices but not on the Lenovo devices where Superfish was installed. 
> The implication, then, is that the green bar provides no improvement in 
> security since apparently nobody noticed it wasn't there.
>
> That being the case, if there is little security benefit to having the green 
> bar to begin with then taking it away seems...feckless?
>
> Besides, while CNNIC clearly made mistakes they aren't the ones who generated 
> a google.com cert. Seems to me some responsibility should be borne by the 
> folks at MCS Holdings, too.

The MCS holding certificate was already revoked.  What more do you
want from them?
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