Uh oh, you said something logical and true. Prepare for the downvoting ...

But ... but ... doom? Gloom? Invincible bacteria??

They primarily manage company-internal CAs for big businesses, which they seem to do well. AFAICT, they noticed that their security infrastructure was compliant for managing a global CA, and thought they might as well also have that as a product. However, there are some operational differences between an enterprise CA and a public one, including that companies want to issue client certs to employees but nobody really does global client certs. That means that they had an intermediate CA for global client certs that they never used, but it was in the standard trust store, and nobody tested that it was handled right until Wayne just went through the standard trust store making sure a new certificate weakness detector didn't give false positives.

So eMudhra correctly handled all the certs they issued, and all the certs they used to sign them, but they got some extra CA certs trusted that they didn't really need, because it would make their side business more similar to their main business, and this caused a major problem.

Chances are that they actually got a real random number out of a HSM for the bad CA certs, but accidentally made the certs with the index of the random number instead of the actual number. (That is, they got the 4th random number and made a cert for 4 instead of the number.) I wouldn't be surprised if they stored the correct private key, which would have made leaf certs that didn't validate because the intermediate was wrong, but they never used it to find this problem.

Like a ... monitor?

Cute, but a more accurate metaphor would be that one guy is using Cialis, and the other guy is whining on Slashdot.

The email wasn't even too good to be true. The nasty phishing emails are the ones where the recipient is supposed to get a real email on the topic, but it's because of a publicly known event and outsiders could easily make up the content, so they just need to find a bunch of likely recipients.

I think the "you've been assigned the mandatory phishing training" emails should come from an external sender and contain a link to get into the extended training, and you should only get the short refresher by finding it through verified sources. Not only would this be a good placement test, it would test that official communications are actually hard to fake and possible to verify using the process in the training.

"In response to the embarrassing data breach that hit the news recently, we've assigned every employee at the company an online training session about phishing at this link. By sure to take it immediately, because it's a legal requirement for our settlement and delays could affect your employment." --Russian Hackers

... orange something something??

Cognitive dissonance must be painful ...

... birds are really smart ... at being birds.

And yes, subject line typo. Was supposed to start "Then". That completely invalidates my point, of course :D

... badum ching. And hurry up with figuring out geoengineering, going nuclear, figuring out mass carbon sequestration, etc.

Or ... we could just keep bleating and blaming (over a worldwide network of powered computers in data centers, no less, lol).

I know the latter is more emotionally satisfying, but if you really care about the temperature, then I suggest a shift of focus to the former.

Pretty much.

... old men shouting at the sky - but not the ones who you think, lol

"LLMs can't program!"

"We can't do nukes!"

"Amazon is evil!"

"When is Matlock on?!?", lol

You do know that you wouldn't have to sign up for such a scheme, right? There's no gun to your head?

Now that, I could get behind.

Um ... no.

That's just what surfaces in your 2-minutes Hate feed.