> On Dec 11, 2017, at 14:14, Tim Hollebeek via dev-security-policy 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> It turns out that the CA/Browser Validation working group is currently
> looking into how to address these issues, in order to tighten up validation
> in these cases. 

This isn’t a validation issue. Both certificates were properly validated and 
have correct (but very misleading information) in them. Business entity names 
are not unique, so it’s not clear how validation changes could address this.

I think it makes a lot of sense to get rid of the EV UI, as it can be trivially 
used to present misleading information to users in the most security-critical 
browser UI area. My understanding is that the research done to date shows that 
EV does not help users defend against phishing attacks, it does not influence 
decision making, and users don’t understand or are confused by EV.

Jonathan
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