If only intentions made the world go round.  But how we use things, and build upon them, is often rather more interesting than what someone intended.<p>The commercial CAs will be a relic. It&#x27;s only a matter of time before the whole house of cards collapses. The price pressure has been downwards for years. EV is not meaningful to most end-users, remaining a money-printing scam that provides little assurance of safety (if Enron, or Ashley Madison could get one, what&#x27;s it worth?), and is vulnerable to MITM and rebinding attacks[1].<p>I anticipate that Amazon&#x27;s CA[2] could undermine the profitability - and via desperation, the integrity - of the whole sector even further.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackhat.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;bh-usa-09&#x2F;ZUSMAN&#x2F;BHUSA09-Zusman-AttackExtSSL-SLIDES.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blackhat.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;bh-usa-09&#x2F;ZUSMAN&#x2F;BHUSA...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;amazon-wants-to-be-your-ssl-certificate-provider-applies-to-be-a-root-certifcate-authority&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;amazon-wants-to-be-your-ssl-cer...</a>