Comment Re:Probably not Illegal. (Score 1) 417
Well, so how do certificates work? Root CA basically gives you the right to issue certificates for whatever website you want. It's unclear whether that happened in this case, other posts (supposedly from people working at schools in the UK) suggest that's how it works.
I agree that there are cases when accepting a certificate authority specific for the organization is a good solution. However it needs to be done openly, not secretly by installing it in the background. Installing root CA in the background is essentially what rootkits do.
Yes, I have my doubts about how much we can trust to the CAs, but I don't really understand how's that related to the issue here. Need to secure access to some school websites? Issue a regular SSL certificate and ask everyone to accept it (or install it in the background, I have no problem with that). Installing a root CA in a shady way is not the right solution.