eMudhra intermediate CA keys compromised & Ofcom admits limits against 4chan - Hacker News (Oct 21, 2026)
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eMudhra intermediate CA keys compromised & Ofcom admits limits against 4chan - Hacker News (Oct 21, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 20266 min
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The private keys behind eight trusted certificate authority certificates were compromised. Browsers have already shut them out, but some of the software you use every day may not have caught up. Welcome to The Automated Daily, Hacker News Edition, the podcast created by Generative

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AI. I'm Trent Teller, and today is October 21, 2026. On the docket today, a web trust scare, a regulator conceding the limits of its reach, an iPad update that's bad news for presenters, exciting CSS on the horizon, a father's reflections on school after AGI, and a sober climate report from the UN.

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Let's start with that security story. Researchers report that the private keys for eight intermediate certificates from eMoudra, a certificate authority whose roots are trusted by the major browsers and operating systems, have been compromised.

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