Maybe what people get upset about is catchy misleading [0] summaries like this, which suggest [0] a CA - nation state collusion, despite the actual story going in a completely different [0] direction?
[0] in the eye of the beholder of course, as always
On a related note, Let's Encrypt also issued the presumably-interception certificates. This can be possibly something that requires interception at the VPS level (otherwise we already detected the BGP leaks). Presumably, Hetzner was forced to do a raw interception and then redirecting all relevant ports to a middlebox for inspection and CA issuance (and since that the ACME spec is well-defined, they can simply check if the handshake contains the TLS ALPN challenge and then redirect them to special code that will reply with the correct things).
TZubiri•24m ago
jerrythegerbil•2m ago